**Introduction** A career in IBM Software means you'll be part of a team that transforms our customer's challenges into industry-leading solutions. We are an infinitely curious team, always seeking new possibilities, and dedicated to creating the world's leading AI-powered, cloud-native software solutions. Our renowned legacy creates endless global opportunities for our network of IBMers. We are a team of deep product experts, ensuring exceptional client experiences, with a focus on delivery, excellence, and obsession over customer outcomes. This position involves contributing to HashiCorp's offerings, now part of IBM, which empower organizations to automate and secure multi-cloud and hybrid environments. You will join a team managing the lifecycle of infrastructure and security, enhancing IBM's cloud solutions to ensure enterprises achieve efficiency, security, and scalability in their cloud journey. **Your role and responsibilities** About the team The Core Data org is composed of Software Engineers, Product Managers and Designers working on the publishing, consuming, indexing, cataloging, governance and storing of data schemas and data across services, APIs and organizations. Our teams create and curate the platform’s underlying data systems and ensure they are reliable, performant, and robust. We own the core foundational services that power the lifecycle of data across the business unit. We are looking for a skilled software engineer to drive the evolution of our data infrastructure. This is a unique opportunity to rearchitect existing data pipelines, focusing on building a highly resilient, scalable, adaptable system that adheres to rigorous engineering and compliance standards. You will be instrumental in championing Infrastructure as Code principles, ensuring all solutions are meticulously versioned in Git, and establishing robust CI/CD pipelines for automated deployments and continuous integration. An exciting part of this opportunity involves exploring and implementing AI-driven approaches to create flexible and modular data processing solutions that can easily adapt to future requirements, while also ensuring strict adherence to data governance policies and compliance regulations. This role also offers the chance to mentor and guide other engineers, fostering a culture of excellence and continuous learning within the team. In this role, you can expect to: ● Design and build simple systems that solve complex, distributed data challenges ● Build, manage and orchestrate ETL/ELT pipelines ● Own large projects, judiciously evaluate trade-offs, and remove project blockers ● Level up your peers through code and design reviews, pair programming, and mentorship ● Work effectively with product managers, data scientists, data analysts and other engineering teams to define requirements, scope projects, and deliver data-as-product solutions ● Lead large software development projects from concept to delivery **Required technical and professional expertise** * 10+ years of experience as a software engineer delivering stable, robust software in large and complex codebases * Professional experience developing with modern programming languages and frameworks, and are interested in working in Golang and Python, and Github Actions YAML workflows * Have in depth knowledge of architectural patterns and experience building data pipelines, microservices, and event-driven architectures. * Familiarity with various data sources, transformation techniques, and loading strategies * Hands-on experience with cloud platforms like AWS, GCP, or Azure, particularly with services related to data storage, processing, and warehousing (e.g., S3, BigQuery, Snowflake, etc.) * Strive for quality through maintainable code and comprehensive testing from development to deployment * Possess strong written communication skills and thrive in an all-remote, document-based culture, leveraging both asynchronous and synchronous collaboration to effectively partner with, unblock, and guide your peers * Production experience means you have worked professionally on software that operates in a production environment serving users. **Preferred technical and professional experience** * College or university degree in Computer Science * Experience using HashiCorp products (especially Terraform) * Navigate ambiguity while remaining empathetic and kind * Eagerly take on new challenges and are driven to deliver the highest quality solution * Desire for continuous self-improvement and a passion for mentoring others 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.