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Your role and responsibilities

In the role of Software Development engineer, you would be responsible for development of individual product features for IBM Ceph (Cluster Management and Orchestration).

You would be a self-motivated developer who likes to solve challenging problems and feels comfortable managing multiple and changing priorities and meets deadlines with quality and speed.

You would be:

Responsible for development and maintenance of product features for IBM Ceph (Management and Orchestration).

Participate in troubleshooting and fixing issues in existing environment.

Required to produce code that is secure, scalable, and reliable, supported by unit tests, functional tests, and technical documentation.

Required to participate in code reviews for your peers' development work, design docs, and all the scrum activities

Required technical and professional expertise

• 4 - 8 years of industry experience in Backend software development, distributed systems, microservices architecture

• Proven knowledge of S/W development process & tools for product development/debugging using Python languages, Shell scripting.

• Product development/usage experience on Linux systems for user level programming and test.

• Good understanding of Virtualization (KVM, VMWare), Container technologies (e.g. Kubernetes, K8, OpenShift, Docker, OCP).

• Good problem-solving skills for complex issues with interdependencies across multiple modules.

• Good verbal and written communication skills.

• Knowledge and hand-on usage of Git.

• Good written/verbal communication skills to report program status crisply and accurately.

Preferred technical and professional experience

• Product development experience in Public Cloud and experience of customize deployment on Public Clouds using Templates.

• Experience working with Global teams.

• Experience with Ceph, or other Storage systems.

• Storage domain knowledge with hands-on experience on storage software stack implementation and debugging.