Software Engineer II - Platform Engineering
IBM · Posted Oct 28
Hybrid cloud, artificial intelligence, enterprise software, quantum computing, and IT consulting services
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About the role
IBM Software builds AI-powered, cloud-native products for business and society. The Platform Engineering role focuses on automation for engineering, infrastructure, compliance, and operational workflows, along with scalable backend services and engineering tools. The engineer will also prototype and deploy AI/LLM-based solutions for compliance workflows and support production reliability.
What you will do
- Build automation for engineering, infrastructure, compliance, and operational workflows like copyright enforcement tooling, OSS scanning, Notices file generation, source code deposits.
- Design, develop, and maintain scalable and reliable backend services and engineering tools.
- Evaluate, prototype, and deploy AI and large language model (LLM)-based solutions to accelerate compliance workflows e.g., point-in-time manual evidence collection with always-on automated checks
- Own initiatives from design and implementation through testing, deployment, and production support.
- Contribute to system architecture, API design, and technical decisions.
- Diagnose complex production issues and drive root-cause resolution and improvements.
- Collaborate with engineering, infrastructure, security, GRC, legal and product teams to deliver solutions.
- Review code and technical designs and contribute to engineering best practices.
- Develop comprehensive automated tests and maintain high-quality code.
- Participate in on-call and support the reliability of production services.
- Mentor engineers through technical guidance, design discussions, and code reviews.
Skills used in this role
What the employer is looking for
- 4-8 years of software engineering experience, with a strong backend and systems focus.
- Strong experience building production-grade applications and services using Golang/Python.
- Experience building internal platforms, developer tooling, or engineering automation.
- Experience with Python, Golang or similar programming languages.
- Strong understanding of distributed systems, APIs, databases, concurrency, and system design.
- Experience with cloud platforms such as AWS or any other similar platforms.
- Solid understanding of cloud-native and DevOps practices, including Github Actions, Github workflows, CI/CD, observability, and infrastructure automation.
- Strong debugging, problem-solving, code review, and testing skills.
- Experience with Terraform / Infrastructure as Code is a plus.
- Experience in compliance engineering, security automation, governance, OSS/license compliance, or audit automation is preferred.
- Strong ownership, communication, and cross-functional collaboration skills.
- Experience with observability tools such as Instana, Datadog, or Grafana.
- Experience with containers/Kubernetes and cloud infrastructure.
- Experience with HashiCorp technologies such as Terraform, Vault, Consul, Boundary, Nomad, or Packer, as familiarity with these products helps in understanding the broader compliance and OSS ecosystem.
- Experience mentoring engineers or leading technical initiatives.
Benefits and support
- Compensation and benefits are detailed in the job posting
About IBM
International Business Machines Corporation (IBM) is a global technology and consulting company that provides hybrid cloud, artificial intelligence, and enterprise infrastructure solutions. Operating in over 175 countries, IBM helps businesses across industries modernize operations, secure data, and drive digital transformation through platforms like watsonx and Red Hat OpenShift. Founded over a century ago, the company remains a pioneer in high-performance computing, enterprise automation, and quantum technology.
- Industry
- Information Technology
- Company size
- 260,000+ employees
- Founded
- June 16, 1911
- Location
- Armonk, New York, USA
- Funding stage
- Public Company
Funding
Public Company · $3.5B raised
- ·Post Ipo Debt$150M
Leadership
Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer
Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer
Senior Vice President, Software and Chief Commercial Officer
Senior Vice President, IBM Consulting
Senior Vice President, Marketing and Communications
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