**Introduction** A career in IBM Software means you’ll be part of a team that transforms our customer’s challenges into solutions. Seeking new possibilities and always staying curious, we are a team dedicated to creating the world’s leading AI-powered, cloud-native software solutions for our customers. Our renowned legacy creates endless global opportunities for our IBMers, so the door is always open for those who want to grow their career. IBM’s product and technology landscape includes Research, Software, and Infrastructure. Entering this domain positions you at the heart of IBM, where growth and innovation thrive. **Your role and responsibilities** Astra Streaming is a wildly successful cloud-native streaming as a service (STaaS) powered by Apache Pulsar. We're looking for a software engineer to join our Streaming Cloud Platform Engineering team. Our team owns the foundational infrastructure and services that enable customers to launch and manage the full lifecycle of their Astra Streaming instances. What you will do: ● Design, develop, and maintain a wide variety of software and cloud infrastructure for Astra Database as a Service (DBaaS) across all public clouds. ● Design, develop, and maintain software microservices including k8s operators, primarily for the full lifecycle of database - from creation, ongoing operation to termination ● Participate in on-call activities, acting as a secondary on-call support person for Production Engineering teams who require assistance with complex production issues. ● Define and implement the best practices that make databases boring to our customers - high uptime, high throughput, low latency at optimal cost. ● Enjoys a highly diverse, collaborative, and cross-functional environment ● Stays abreast of modern technologies and practices especially in cloud native space ● Fosters long-term team success and contributes to a healthy work environment. **Required technical and professional expertise** ● 4-6 Years of relevant experience ● Solid experience with / proficiency with public cloud infrastructure -- at least one of Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud Platform, or Microsoft Azure. ● Expertise in Kubernetes, including configuration, usage as an application platform, maintenance, scaling, networking and troubleshooting. ● Solid understanding of Kubernetes and cloud network concepts such as ingress, security, networking, object storage and disk storage. ● 3-5+ years of development experience with programming languages such as Go/Python/Java (preferably Go) ● Experience building highly scalable distributed systems on Kubernetes IBM is committed to creating a diverse environment and is proud to be an equal-opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, caste, genetics, pregnancy, disability, neurodivergence, age, veteran status, or other characteristics. IBM is also committed to compliance with all fair employment practices regarding citizenship and immigration status.