Software Engineering Sr. Software Engineer - Backend Professional

Overview

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.

The Engineers on our team own the core foundational services that power the entire HCP Terraform Agent. 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.

An ideal candidate will have experience building distributed systems at scale, a principled approach to service security, and an interest in working closely with both infrastructure and feature teams to solve complex problems that span several 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.

• 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 and Golang

• 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

High School Diploma/GED

• Have 5+ years of production experience working on any of the following:

  • Backend applications (e.g., Ruby on Rails)

  • Databases (e.g., Postgres, Redis)

  • Services written in Go

• Strive for quality through maintainable code and comprehensive testing from development to deployment

• 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

• Have the ability to lead projects and bring others along with you

• Are familiar with best practices for application and infrastructure security

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.

Location:

Lowell, San Jose, Austin

States:
Texas, North Carolina, Massachusetts, California

Country:
United States

Work arrangement:
Hybrid

Area of work:
Software Engineering

Employment type:

Regular
Projected Minimum Salary per year:
Projected Maximum Salary per year:

Shift: General (daytime)
Some travel may be required based on business demand

Contract type:
Regular
Position type:
Professional

Job
Date posted: 25-Feb-2026

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.

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