Senior Java Backend Developer – Instana Issue Detection
IBM · Kochi
| Company | IBM |
|---|---|
| Role | Senior Java Backend Developer – Instana Issue Detection |
| Location | Kochi |
| Work mode | Hybrid |
| Experience | 6+ years |
| Job type | Full-time |
About this job
IBM is hiring a senior Java Backend Developer in Kochi for the Issue Detection team of Instana, IBM's observability product. Instana collects and analyses huge volumes of metrics, traces and spans to give SREs useful insights.
You will lead the design of complex features, drive technical decisions, review code and mentor engineers. You will also handle escalations and support tickets and demo new features. The team ships every two weeks. The role is hybrid.
Eligibility
- 10+ years with JVM languages, including profiling and performance
- Strong core Java and Java reactive programming
- Kafka, Elasticsearch and PostgreSQL
- Operating systems and container knowledge
- Experience leading teams of at least 5 people
Skills required
What you will do
- Lead design and build of complex, scalable features
- Make architecture and technical decisions
- Review code and mentor engineers
- Handle production escalations and support tickets
- Demo features and help set priorities with product
How to apply
- Open the official IBM job page with the Apply button and submit your application there.
- Tailor your resume to high-volume Java backend systems you led, and performance problems you solved.
Before the interview, prepare:
- Reactive Java: Project Reactor or RxJava, back-pressure
- Kafka stream processing for metrics and traces
- JVM profiling: GC, heap and CPU flame graphs
- Elasticsearch: mappings, shards and query tuning
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