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Software Engineer - Cloud Database

IBM

Bangalore, India

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Full-time

1mo ago

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•Professional development budget

•Generous paid time off and holidays

•Comprehensive health, dental, and vision insurance

•401(k) matching

•Flexible work arrangements

•Competitive salary and equity package

•Learning

•Healthcare

•Flexible Hours

•Equity

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IBM

Software Engineer

Cloud Database

3 weeks ago• Bangalore, India
Viewed on February 1, 2026
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About Us

IBM researches, develops, manufactures, and markets technology products ranging from mainframe computers to cognitive solutions, always with a core drive to innovate and explore new fields.

Size: 10000+ employees
Industry: Technology

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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

We're seeking talented software engineers passionate about distributed systems to join our team. If you thrive in designing and optimizing large-scale distributed systems, this role is an excellent fit.

You'll work alongside our engineering teams to develop Astra, our cloud-native, serverless database built on Apache Cassandra®. Our products power mission-critical applications for major organizations worldwide, and your contributions will directly impact their reliability and performance.

What you will do:

Design and implement new database features with a strong focus on scalability, maintainability, and testability.
Diagnose and resolve database issues

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Optimize database performance, work on high availability, multitenancy and fault tolerance across multi-region cloud deployments.
Enhance monitoring and observability solutions to track database health, performance metrics, and resource utilization.
Stay ahead of emerging cloud database technologies and best practices to drive continuous innovation.

Required education

Bachelor's Degree

Preferred education

Master's Degree

Required technical and professional expertise

Experience in operating or implementing distributed systems, with an understanding of scalability and fault tolerance.
Knowledge of Java and the JVM ecosystem, including familiarity with widely used open-source libraries and frameworks.
Solid understanding of core algorithms, data structures, concurrency, and software design principles for building efficient and maintainable applications.
Practical experience working with databases.
Proficiency in Linux/Unix environments.

Preferred technical and professional experience

Ability to troubleshoot complex issues in high-availability, high-throughput, fault-tolerant systems is a plus.
Knowledge of cloud-native technologies (e.g., Kubernetes, Docker, AWS/Azure/GCP) is a plus.
Contributions to open-source database projects (especially Cassandra ecosystem) is a plus.
Experience with database internals (storage engines, query processing, replication) is a plus.

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.

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When applying to jobs of your interest, we recommend that you do so for those that match your experience and expertise. Our recruiters advise that you apply to not more than 3 roles in a year for the best candidate experience. For additional information about location requirements, please discuss with the recruiter following submission of your application.

Client-provided location(s): Bangalore, India Job ID: IBM-66242Employment Type: OTHERPosted: 2026-01-09T18:49:51Apply on company site

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