Description

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 on a no-code/low-code platform AI development based on OpenSearch and Langflow to enable customers to build comprehensive GenAI applications to meet their mission critical needs. We're looking for a software engineer to join our AI Cloud Platform Engineering team. Our team owns the foundational infrastructure and services that enable customers to launch and manage the full lifecycle of their AI platform services.

What you will do:

● Develop and own high-quality code across all levels of the stack - UI, backend to frontend, microservices - from investigation to implementation to testing to release

● Model solid engineering practices around architectural design, testability, scalability and maintainability

● Work with modern technologies and frameworks such as Python, React, Node.js, Java, Docker, and Kubernetes

● Design, develop, and maintain a wide variety of software and cloud infrastructure for AI Platform services..

● 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 bring AI capabilities to customers with high uptime, high throughput, low latency at optimal cost.

● Enjoys a highly diverse, collaborative, and cross-functional environment

● Fosters long-term team success and contributes to a healthy work environment.

Required education

High School Diploma/GED

Preferred education

Bachelor's Degree

Required technical and professional expertise

• 9 + years of relevant experience
• Deep understanding of system design, data structures.
• 3-5+ years of development experience with programming languages such as Go/Python/Java (preferably Python and React Node.js)
• Proven record of development up and down the stack
• Experience with containers and docker orchestration.
• Experience with (RESTful APIs) microservices and associated patterns including dependency injection.
• Experience with multi-threaded programming and concurrency primitives.
• Knowledge of distributed data stores (NoSQL systems) to achieve massive scalability and availability of the data made available by your data pipelines.
• Experience in SDLC having contributed at each step: Plan, Track, Code, Build, Test, Deploy and Monitor.
• Familiarity with any public cloud providers ( AWS, GCP , Azure ) on cloud network concepts such as ingress, security, networking, object storage and disk storage, CI/CD, Blue/Green deployments
• Experience building highly scalable distributed systems

Preferred technical and professional experience

• Experience with Open Search or Elastic Search

ABOUT BUSINESS UNIT

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 LIFE @ IBM

In a world where technology never stands still, we understand that, dedication to our clients success, innovation that matters, and trust and personal responsibility in all our relationships, lives in what we do as IBMers as we strive to be the catalyst that makes the world work better.

Being an IBMer means you'll be able to learn and develop yourself and your career, you'll be encouraged to be courageous and experiment everyday, all whilst having continuous trust and support in an environment where everyone can thrive whatever their personal or professional background.

Our IBMers are growth minded, always staying curious, open to feedback and learning new information and skills to constantly transform themselves and our company. They are trusted to provide on-going feedback to help other IBMers grow, as well as collaborate with colleagues keeping in mind a team focused approach to include different perspectives to drive exceptional outcomes for our customers. The courage our IBMers have to make critical decisions everyday is essential to IBM becoming the catalyst for progress, always embracing challenges with resources they have to hand, a can-do attitude and always striving for an outcome focused approach within everything that they do.

Are you ready to be an IBMer?

ABOUT IBM

IBM's greatest invention is the IBMer. We believe that through the application of intelligence, reason and science, we can improve business, society and the human condition, bringing the power of an open hybrid cloud and AI strategy to life for our clients and partners around the world.

Restlessly reinventing since 1911, we are not only one of the largest corporate organizations in the world, we're also one of the biggest technology and consulting employers, with many of the Fortune 500 companies relying on the IBM Cloud to run their business.

At IBM, we pride ourselves on being an early adopter of artificial intelligence, quantum computing and blockchain. Now it's time for you to join us on our journey to being a responsible technology innovator and a force for good in the world.

IBM 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, genetics, pregnancy, disability, neurodivergence, age, or other characteristics protected by the applicable law. IBM is also committed to compliance with all fair employment practices regarding citizenship and immigration status.

OTHER RELEVANT JOB DETAILS

IBM will not be providing visa sponsorship for this position now or in the future. Therefore, in order to be considered for this position, you must have the ability to work without a need for current or future visa sponsorship.

The compensation range and benefits for this position are based on a full-time schedule for a full calendar year. The salary will vary depending on your job-related skills, experience and location. Pay increment and frequency of pay will be in accordance with employment classification and applicable laws. For part time roles, your compensation and benefits will be adjusted to reflect your hours. Benefits may be pro-rated for those who start working during the calendar year.

Job Title

Software Engineer - OpenRAG FullStack

Date posted

04-Dec-2025

Job ID

72424

City / Township / Village

San Jose

State / Province

California

Country

United States

Work arrangement

Hybrid

Area of work

Software Engineering

Employment type

Regular

Contract type

Regular

Projected Minimum Salary per year

161,000.00

Projected Maximum Salary per year

276,000.00

Position type

Professional

Travel required

No Travel

Company

(0147) International Business Machines Corporation

Shift

General (daytime)

Is this role a commissionable/sales incentive based position?

No



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