**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** DataStax,an IBM company has roots in several open source projects such as Apache Cassandra, Open Search, Apache Pulsar and Langflow. Astra DB is a wildly successful cloud-native database as a service (DBaaS) powered by Apache Cassandra. We are now working towards a hosted version of Open Search so that our customers have comprehensive solutions to build GenAI applications to meet their transactional data and hybrid text search needs. We're looking for a software engineer to join our Open Search Cloud Platform Engineering team. Our team owns the foundational infrastructure and services that enable customers to launch and manage the full lifecycle of their Open Search instances. ● Design, develop, and maintain a wide variety of software and cloud infrastructure for Open Search as a Service across all public clouds. ● Design, develop, and maintain software microservices including k8s operators, primarily for the full lifecycle management of open search instances - both for single tenant and multi tenant offerings. ● 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 Open Search capabilities 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 + 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, CI/CD, Blue/Green deployments ● 3-5+ years of development experience with programming languages such as Go/Python/Java (preferably Go) ● Experience building highly scalable distributed systems on Kubernetes **Preferred technical and professional experience** ● Experience with Open Search or Elastic Search or Solr ● Contribution to one or more open source Java and JVM based projects 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.