Software Engineer II - Platform Engineering

Introduction At IBM Software, we transform client challenges into solutions. Building the world’s leading AI-powered, cloud-native products that shape the future of business and society. Our legacy of innovation creates endless opportunities for IBMers to learn, grow, and make an impact on a global scale. Working in Software means joining a team fueled by curiosity and collaboration. You’ll work with diverse technologies, partners, and industries to design, develop, and deliver solutions that power digital transformation. With a culture that values innovation, growth, and continuous learning, IBM Software places you at the heart of IBM’s product and technology landscape. Here, you’ll have the tools and opportunities to advance your career while creating software that changes the world.

Your Role And Responsibilities As a software developer, you will

• 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.

Preferred Education Bachelor’s Degree

Required Technical And Professional Expertise

• 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.

Preferred Technical And Professional Experience

• 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.