IBM · 5 days ago
Staff Engineer-Full Stack-HCP Terraform Foundations Agent Services Engineering
Austin, TX
Full-time
Onsite
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
7+ years expIBM is seeking a Staff Engineer to join their Foundations team, which focuses on the HCP Terraform hosted service. The role involves leading the Agent Services Engineering team, developing core services, and ensuring service reliability and performance.
Business DevelopmentBusiness Information SystemsCRMData ManagementFoundational AISoftware
Responsibilities
Develop and maintain the Agent core services written in Golang as well as the Front End code that’s in Ember.js
Work with product and stakeholders to define the next-generation architecture and Front End of the HCP Terraform Agent
Establish and foster best practices around service security and performance
Investigate problems, performance bottlenecks, and orchestration issues which span multiple services
Strive for quality through maintainable code and comprehensive testing from development to deployment
Communicate clearly while remaining empathetic and kind
Have an eagerness to learn through humility and reflection
Have experience debugging performance bottlenecks for live services and systems
Participate in a 24/7 on-call rotation that supports our production services
Provide technical leadership to teammates through coaching and mentorship
Be responsible for technical deliverables, development timelines, and ensuring software architecture is aligned with the business and customer needs
Planning project scope and direction aligning with business and customer needs
Conduct code reviews and monitoring compliance with coding standards
Qualification
Required
7+ years as a backend software engineer and front end experience using Ember, JavaScript, or React
Experience building and scaling distributed, highly-available systems
Informed opinions from experience about service ownership best practices, incident response and resolution, and platform resiliency
Solid knowledge with one systems language, and ability to code in several more (our foundational services are written in Go and we also have a Rails monolith)
Experience debugging performance bottlenecks for live services and systems
Familiarity with best practices for application and infrastructure security
Strong communication and leadership skills
Company
IBM
IBM is an IT technology and consulting firm providing computer hardware, software, infrastructure, and hosting services.
10001+ employees
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Funding
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Leadership Team
Alain Bénichou
Chief Executive Officer, IBM Greater China Group
Alex Yang
CTO and Chief Architect
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