**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** As a Software Development Manager, you’ll manage software development, enhance product experiences, and scale our team’s capabilities. You’ll manage careers, streamline hiring, collaborate with product, and drive innovation. We seek proactive professionals passionate about team growth, software architecture, coding, and process enhancements. Mastery of frameworks, deployment tech, and cloud APIs is essential as well as adaptability to innovative technologies. Your primary responsibilities include: •Solution Development: Lead the development of innovative solutions to enhance our product and development experience, effectively contributing to making our software better. •Team Growth and Management: Manage the career growth of team members, scale hiring and development processes, and foster a culture of continuous improvement within the team. •Strategic Partnership: Partner with product teams to brainstorm ideas and collaborate on delivering an exceptional product, contributing to the overall success of the organization. •Technical Direction: Provide technical guidance by actively participating in architectural discussions, developing code, and advocating for new process improvements to drive innovation and efficiency. **Required technical and professional expertise** Minimum 13+ years of experience in performance engineering, product development, and managing team. * Expertise in public and private cloud infrastructure (AWS, Azure, OpenStack, OCI). * Experience with Cloud Orchestration Platforms (Kubernetes, Docker, OpenShift, Tanzu). * Deep understanding of IaC tools like Terraform, Ansible. * Exposure to observability frameworks/tools (ELK Stack, Grafana, Prometheus, Splunk). * Experience in performance testing tools like JMeter, LoadRunner, Gatling, k6, or similar. * Expertise in monitoring and analysis tools like Grafana, Prometheus, AppDynamics, Dynatrace, New Relic, Splunk, or Datadog. * Strong knowledge of distributed systems, cloud reference architectures, and various deployment patterns (network, compute, storage). * Knowledge of Kafka, Redis, Elasticsearch, and other high-performance technologies. * Hands-on experience with Core Cloud Services, microservices, containerization, and multi-region cloud solutions. * Proficiency in DevOps tools (Jenkins, GitHub, Ansible, Puppet, Chef). * Knowledge of NoSQL databases (Cassandra, MongoDB, Amazon DynamoDB, CouchDB, Redis). * Experience with cloud messaging/streaming brokers like Kafka, RabbitMQ. * Strong Linux system administration and ability to analyze workloads, debug, and tune performance at the system level. **Preferred technical and professional experience** •Cloud Computing: Experience with Docker and Kubernetes in cloud computing platforms. •Full-Stack Development Mastery: Expertise in both front-end and back-end development. •Data Pipeline Proficiency: Familiarity with data pipelining solutions. 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.