Staff Software Engineer - Confluent Business Technology

At IBM Software, we transform client challenges into solutions. Building the world’s leading AI-powered, cloud-native products that shape the future of business and society. Our legacy of innovation creates endless opportunities for IBMers to learn, grow, and make an impact on a global scale. Working in Software means joining a team fueled by curiosity and collaboration. You’ll work with diverse technologies, partners, and industries to design, develop, and deliver solutions that power digital transformation. With a culture that values innovation, growth, and continuous learning, IBM Software places you at the heart of IBM’s product and technology landscape. Here, you’ll have the tools and opportunities to advance your career while creating software that changes the world. With Confluent, data doesn’t sit still. We put information in motion, streaming in near real time so organizations can react faster, build smarter, and deliver experiences as dynamic as the world around them. About Team The Business Technology team builds the internal applications that act as Confluent’s central nervous system for revenue, forecasting, and operational efficiency. We deliver strategic internal web applications that power deal lifecycle workflows, quoting, pricing and tiering, and planning tools used by Sales, Finance, and Customer teams. Our products enable data driven decision making before resources are committed, helping stakeholders plan proactively, optimize usage, and manage spend with confidence. The team focuses on high business impact internal–facing applications with mission critical outcomes for growth, efficiency, and scale. About the Role We are seeking an exceptional Staff Software Engineer who combines deep technical expertise with the ability to shape architecture, influence cross functional partners, and drive open ended initiatives across teams.

You will own the end to end design and delivery of complex systems, identify high leverage problems, and set patterns that other engineers follow. This role is ideal for someone who enjoys solving real business problems with pragmatic, maintainable solutions more than building at massive consumer scale, and who can operate comfortably from hands-on implementation through technical strategy and stakeholder leadership. What You’ll Do ● Lead the architecture, design, and implementation of high impact internal web applications that support deal lifecycle, pricing and quoting, forecasting, and planning workflows. ● Own complex, cross team technical initiatives from problem framing through design, implementation, rollout, and long term evolution. ● Identify and drive high leverage technical investments that improve reliability, performance, developer velocity, and user experience across multiple applications and services. ● Design and evolve microservices, APIs, and data models that integrate with systems such as Salesforce, billing, data platforms, and analytics, ensuring robust contracts and clear boundaries. ● Partner closely with Product Managers and business stakeholders to translate ambiguous business problems into clear technical strategies, roadmaps, and deliverables over multi quarter horizons. ● Provide technical leadership and mentoring for senior and mid level engineers, raising the bar on design quality, code quality, observability, and operational excellence across the team. ● Champion engineering best practices including testing, performance engineering, incident readiness, and secure coding, and ensure they are consistently applied in your area of ownership. ● Collaborate with peer teams to define cohesive end to end solutions and shared platforms rather than point integrations. ● Contribute to and help refine the technical strategy, architecture principles, and career standards for the Commit Estimator and broader Application & AI Engineering domains. ● Contribute to modernize the existing application and platform for scalability, availability, speed of delivering software and enabling AI capabilities for End Users . 12+ years of software engineering experience, including technical architecture for complex, business-critical systems. Strong full stack expertise (Go, Java, APIs/services, React or similar front ends) with solid foundations in system design and data structures. Experience with relational databases (PostgreSQL) and distributed systems technologies like Kafka or messaging/event streaming. Proven ability to design and deliver scalable internal/B2B applications, breaking down complex problems into clear solutions across multi-quarter initiatives. Cloud-native experience (AWS, containers, CI/CD, observability) with a track record of improving developer productivity, operational excellence, and mentoring teams. Familiarity with IBM-Confluent Products and Services. United States Software Engineering Hybrid Professional Multiple Cities