Description

Introduction

The Foundations Engineering team is composed of Site Reliability Engineers and Software Engineers working on the HCP Terraform hosted service. Our team ensures that the platform's underlying infrastructure, data stores, and core foundational services are reliable, performant, and robust.

We're looking for a Sr. Software Engineer to join our team. The Engineers on our team own the core foundational services that power the entire HCP Terraform hosted service. These mission-critical services and data stores compose the Terraform plan and apply pipeline, and are used by every Terraform run which hits HCP Terraform.

The ideal candidate will have worked with large-scale distributed systems and be focused on system security. They will want to work collaboratively with various teams. These teams oversee infrastructure and develop new features. Together, they will tackle large problems impacting multiple services.

If you fit this profile, we'd love to meet you! We have a large footprint and a quickly-growing user base, with lots of interesting problems and plenty of opportunities for growth and development.

Your role and responsibilities

What you'll do

• Develop and maintain the backend services on which HCP Terraform relies
  
• Continuously improve the product by writing code in systems written in Ruby on Rails
  
• Investigate problems, performance bottlenecks, and orchestration issues which span multiple services
  
• Enable your teammates through technical mentorship, code reviews, and pairing
  
• Participate in a 24/7 on-call rotation that supports our production services
  

Required education

High School Diploma/GED

Required technical and professional expertise

What you'll need

• Have 5+ years of production experience working on any of the following:
  
  • Backend applications (e.g., Ruby on Rails)
    
  • Databases (e.g., Postgres, Redis)
    
• Strive for quality through maintainable code and comprehensive testing from development to deployment
  
• Experience upgrading Ruby, Rails, and dependencies
  
• Experience building and scaling distributed, highly available systems
  
• Communicate clearly while remaining empathetic and kind
  
• Have an eagerness to learn through humility and reflection
  
• Have experience debugging performance bottlenecks for live services and systems
  
• Are familiar with best practices for application and infrastructure security
  

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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.

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OTHER RELEVANT JOB DETAILS

IBM offers a competitive and comprehensive benefits program. Eligible employees may have access to:

- Healthcare benefits including medical & prescription drug coverage, dental, vision, and mental health & well being

- Financial programs such as 401(k), cash balance pension plan, the IBM Employee Stock Purchase Plan, financial counseling, life insurance, short & long- term disability coverage, and opportunities for performance based salary incentive programs

- Generous paid time off including 12 holidays, minimum 56 hours sick time, 120 hours vacation, 12 weeks parental bonding leave in accordance with IBM Policy, and other Paid Care Leave programs. IBM also offers paid family leave benefits to eligible employees where required by applicable law

- Training and educational resources on our personalized, AI-driven learning platform where IBMers can grow skills and obtain industry-recognized certifications to achieve their career goals

- Diverse and inclusive employee resource groups, giving & volunteer opportunities, and discounts on retail products, services & experiences

We consider qualified applicants with criminal histories, consistent with applicable law.

This position was posted on the date cited in the key job details section and is anticipated to remain posted for 21 days from this date or less if not needed to fill the role.

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

Sr. Software Engineer - Backend - HCP Terraform Foundations Web Engineering

Date posted

08-Jan-2026

Job ID

83098

City / Township / Village

LOWELL, RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, San Jose, Austin

State / Province

Texas, North Carolina, Massachusetts, California

Country

United States

Work arrangement

Hybrid

Area of work

Software Engineering

Employment type

Regular

Contract type

Regular

Projected Minimum Salary per year

131,000.00

Projected Maximum Salary per year

226,000.00

Position type

Professional

Travel required

Some travel may be required based on business demand

Company

(0147) International Business Machines Corporation

Shift

General (daytime)

Is this role a commissionable/sales incentive based position?

No



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