**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. We are seeking a skilled Software Engnineer to join our IBM Software team. As part of our team, you will be responsible for developing and maintaining high-quality software products, working with a variety of technologies and programming languages. 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. IBM Software infuses core business operations with intelligence—from machine learning to generative AI—to help make organizations more responsive, productive, and resilient. IBM Software helps clients put AI into action now to create real value with trust, speed, and confidence across digital labor, IT automation, application modernization, security, and sustainability. Critical to this is the ability to make use of all data, because AI is only as good as the data that fuels it. In most organizations data is spread across multiple clouds, on premises, in private datacenters, and at the edge. IBM’s AI and data platform scales and accelerates the impact of AI with trusted data, and provides leading capabilities to train, tune and deploy AI across business. IBM’s hybrid cloud platform is one of the most comprehensive and consistent approach to development, security, and operations across hybrid environments—a flexible foundation for leveraging data, wherever it resides, to extend AI deep into a business. **Your role and responsibilities** We are seeking a Skilled Software Engineer to join our Db2 for z/OS team with a focus on the Query Accelerator component. Your main duties will include working closely with development to understand new features so that you can either modify existing workloads or create new ones to test the function, and you will be responsible for stress testing newly developed features as well as fixes for customer problems. You will occasionally get involved in customers cases where a problem may need to be recreated. Our SVT engineers have a big picture view of Db2 for z/OS and create/maintain applications, workloads, and automation in a native z/OS environment. We are looking for someone passionate about product quality and new technology. Candidates with strong programming, debugging, and problem troubleshooting skills are needed to excel in this position. Join the innovative technical team focused on delivering high quality software with heavy emphasis on stress testing for every outgoing delivery. **Required technical and professional expertise** Required Skills: •Minimum 5+ years of Software programming work experience •Bachelor’s degree •Understanding of software development lifecycle •Understand the value of quality control in software product development Should possess good problem-solving skills •Strong RDBMS & SQL skills •Programming skills in Java, C, Python and a desire to learning new technologies **Preferred technical and professional experience** Preferred Skills: •Knowledge about IBM Db2 •Basics of Linux usage and administration •Programming skills in Java, C •Understanding of software scalability testing 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.