Staff Software Engineer – Developer Productivity Platform (Confluent)
IBM · Bengaluru
| Company | IBM |
|---|---|
| Role | Staff Software Engineer – Developer Productivity Platform (Confluent) |
| Location | Bengaluru |
| Work mode | Remote |
| Experience | 6+ years |
| Job type | Full-time |
About this job
IBM is hiring a Staff Software Engineer in Bengaluru for Confluent's Developer Productivity (DevProd) group. This is a senior individual role that leads through technical judgement and mentoring, not people management.
You will set technical direction for internal platforms such as CI/CD, test infrastructure, performance testing and developer portals. You will lead open-ended projects, cut toil and guide safe use of AI developer tools. The role is listed as remote.
Eligibility
- Extensive experience building and running cloud services or developer platforms
- Deep expertise in at least one area such as CI/CD, test infra or distributed systems
- A record of architecting complex systems end to end
- Strong reliability, observability and incident response knowledge
- Clear design docs and influence across teams
Skills required
What you will do
- Set direction for key developer productivity platforms
- Lead ambiguous projects from discovery to operation
- Build secure, multi-tenant internal platform services
- Improve performance testing and regression detection
- Mentor engineers and review designs and code
How to apply
- Open the official IBM job page with the Apply button and submit your application there.
- Tailor your resume to developer platforms or infrastructure you led, and how they made engineering teams faster.
Before the interview, prepare:
- CI/CD at scale: caching, test sharding and flaky test control
- Performance and regression testing in pre-production
- Writing a design doc that weighs trade-offs
- Measuring developer productivity without bad metrics
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