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Storage Software Engineer, CephFS

IBM

Bangalore, India

On-site

Full-time

1mo ago

Benefits & Perks

•401(k) matching

•Professional development budget

•Generous paid time off and holidays

•Team events and activities

•Comprehensive health, dental, and vision insurance

•Learning

•Healthcare

Required Skills

React

TypeScript

Node.js

Storage Software Engineer, CephFS

3 weeks ago• Bangalore, India
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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

Introduction

IBM Infrastructure is a catalyst that makes the world work better because our clients demand it. Heterogeneous environments, the explosion of data, digital automation, and cybersecurity threats require hybrid cloud infrastructure that only IBM can provide.

Your ability to be creative, a forward-thinker and to focus on innovation that matters, is all support by our growth minded culture as we continue to drive career development across our teams. Collaboration is key to IBM Infrastructure success, as we bring together different business units and teams that balance their priorities in a way that best serves our client's needs.

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

-Contribute to CephFS development with a global team

Work as part of the worldwide Ceph engineering team to implement and enhance CephFS, the file system component of the Ceph software-defined distributed storage platform.
-Implement features and fix defects under guidance

Take ownership of well-scoped tasks within larger features: implement changes, fix bugs, and contribute to enhancements in CephFS. Participate in design discussions, provide input, and translate agreed designs into high-quality code.
-Support scalability and performance goals

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Help investigate performance and scalability issues by reproducing problems, analyzing logs/metrics, and proposing incremental improvements. Implement optimizations reviewed by senior/principal engineers.
Participate in the open-source Ceph community

Engage with the Ceph community by sending patches, responding to review feedback, and participating in discussions on mailing lists, IRC, and GitHub. Follow community coding standards and practices to deliver enterprise-quality software.
-Work across CephFS components

Gain hands-on experience with CephFS components such as: Linux kernel and userspace clients

Clustered userspace metadata server (MDS)
The RADOS object store and messaging layer
Higher-level integrations (e.g., Open Stack, Open Shift, NFS-Ganesha gateway)

Gradually build expertise in one or more of these areas.-Remote collaboration and communication

Communicate effectively in a fully remote, globally distributed team. Provide regular status updates, participate in stand-ups and design reviews, and ask clarifying questions to ensure alignment.
-Learn and apply best practices

Stay current with concepts in distributed storage, file systems, and related technologies. Apply software engineering best practices (testing, code review, clean code, documentation) to improve quality and reliability.
-Knowledge sharing within the team

Share findings, debug notes, and how-tos with teammates via documents, design notes, or short presentations. Provide informal guidance to new team members or interns in areas where you have gained experience.
-Documentation and basic reporting
Document your work through code comments, small design notes, test plans, and how-to guides. Provide concise progress updates to your leads and stakeholders.

Required education

Bachelor's Degree

Required technical and professional expertise

5+ years of working experience working with C++ or another systems programming language, with the ability to read and modify existing code.
Good debugging skills for user-space processes and logs, including basic analysis of core files.
Ability to help troubleshoot issues in production environments and work with customer-facing teams on root cause analysis under the guidance of senior engineers.
Strong written and verbal English communication skills.
Basic Python skills (or willingness to learn) to write and enhance automated tests.
Familiarity with open-source development practices and workflows
Practical experience using Git and GitHub for day-to-day development and code reviews.
Ability to work within a large existing codebase and implement well-scoped features, fixes, and improvements based on agreed designs.

Preferred technical and professional experience

Exposure to data storage, file systems, or related infrastructure components
Familiarity with core distributed systems concepts (e.g., replication, consistency, fault tolerance)
Experience working in distributed or remote teams is a plus
Any prior contributions to open-source projects (bug reports, small patches, documentation, etc.) are favorable

ABOUT BUSINESS UNIT:

IBM Systems helps IT leaders think differently about their infrastructure. IBM servers and storage are no longer inanimate - they can understand, reason, and learn so our clients can innovate while avoiding IT issues. Our systems power the world's most important industries and our clients are the architects of the future. Join us to help build our leading-edge technology portfolio designed for cognitive business and optimized for cloud computing.

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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.

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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.

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Client-provided location(s): Bangalore, India

Job ID: IBM-77753

Employment Type: OTHER

Posted: 2026-01-06T18:55:46
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