Introduction
At IBM, work is more than a job – it’s a calling: To build. To design. To code. To consult. To think along with clients and sell. To make markets. To invent. To collaborate. Not just to do something better, but to attempt things you’ve never thought possible. Are you ready to lead in this new era of technology and solve some of the world’s most challenging problems? If so, lets talk.

Your Role and Responsibilities
Works in an agile, collaborative environment across software architecture, understanding both front-end and back-end concerns, while specializing in the back-end. Works with client-server architectures, networking protocols, application development, and databases. Uses and develops RESTful APIs and web services. Understands user and system requirements. Develops using object oriented programming, multi-threading and concurrency. Plans, analyzes, designs, and constructs databases. Implements industry standards and best practices for database security and capable of analyzing and defining database and information security requirements. Develops structured query language (SQL) queries, back-end database stored procedures, or NoSQL queries. Works in programming languages like Ruby, Python, Java, Node.js, server-side JavaScript.Skills:

Environment:
Professional knowledge of function, business unit or country operations. Understand organizational resources, priorities, needs and policies.

Communication/Negotiation:
Guide other professionals. Adapt communications and approaches to conclude negotiations with various partners, resulting in common agreements.

Problem Solving:
Analyze complex/new situations, anticipate potential problems and future trends, assess opportunities, impacts, and risks. Develop and implement solutions.

Contribution/Leadership:
Leads multi-functional teams, or conducts special projects, or manages department(s) (national or international). Has vision of functional or unit mission. Influences people and organizations, including executive management, when issues are complex/difficult and require considerable diplomacy. Considerable latitude in responsibilities to define and decide on tools, processes, priorities and resources following general business unit directives. Recognized as an expert in their field. Often no precedent exists.

Impact on Business/Scope:
Accountable for projects or programs involving multi- functional, country-wide or regional teams. Responsible for overall functional program success. Activities are subject to business measurements, impact customer satisfaction, and impact functional, business unit, or country costs or expenses.

Required Technical and Professional Expertise
• Experience working with C++ codebases, or other systems languages and demonstrated ability
• Good debugging skills both live system and offline core files
• Able to troubleshoot issues in production and assist Customer facing team for root cause analysis
• Excellent English written and verbal communication skills, for our worldwide team
• Basic knowledge of Python, to use and enhance testing
• Working experience with Open source projects
• Demonstrated ability to understand large codebases and develop significant new features and architectural changes
• Modern systems development, debugging, and system construction.
• Distributed systems, software-defined storage, and networked file access protocols expertise.
• Proficiency in C and C++ with knowledge of C11, C++20 coroutines.
• Familiarity with storage architectures, object storage, and open-source storage solutions.
• Experience in open-source community collaboration and contribution.
• Debugging complex distributed systems and performance optimization skills.
• Proficiency in advanced native-code tools and techniques for system development.
• Familiarity with cloud storage technologies, object storage interfaces (e.g., S3, Swift), and integration of storage services with big data/analytics and AI/ML platform