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Introduction

A career in IBM Software means you'll be part of a team that transforms our customers 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.

We are seeking a skilled developer to join our IBM Software team. As part of our team, you will be responsible for developing and maintaining high-quality software products, working with a variety of technologies and programming languages.

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

This is a great opportunity to work with the latest AI and observability technologies including watsonx, OpenTelemetry and eBPF as a C/C++/Rust developer on the IBM Instana product team. In this role you will report directly to the Engineering Manager for tracers and profilers and will be responsible for integrating the latest open telemetry specifications as well as contributing to the respective open-source communities. In this role you will be laser focused on quality and speed of execution. You should understand contemporary software engineering design and development practices and be comfortable working and collaborating with the Product Manager team lead and with other engineers.

We are looking for a Polyglot Developer with either strong C/C++ and/or Rust skills to work on tracing and profiling agents for various runtimes. Knowledge about the runtime APIs of Java, PHP or .NET and knowledge about the extended Berkeley Packet Filter (eBPF) and Linux kernel is an asset.,

A history of working with GitHub and Open-Source projects will help spearhead our involvement in OpenTelemetry and eBPF. You will be expected to gain an understanding of the respective Open-Source communities, their contribution models, communication, governance strategies and tooling. The successful candidate will contribute to the community itself providing added features and fixes that will help enable our success.

Key tasks to your day-to-day work include:

• Direct communication with Product Managers to plan and implement new features.

• Direct communication with customers in context of consulting and ticket-work.

• Extend the profiler and tracer capabilities by adding support for new libraries.

• Refactor existing code and bring in new ideas.

• Diagnose performance and find more efficient ways of achieving our goals.

• Work with Open-Source projects and their respective communities.

Required Technical and Professional Expertise

• A minimum of 5+ years experience with C / C++ or Rust.

• Good code writing discipline and an eye for code efficiency.

• Strong analytical thinking and problem solving.

• Working with Github and Open-Source.

• Experience working with containerized development environment and runtimes(Docker, Kubernetes, etc.).

• Profiling and tracing skills (pprof, JProfiler).

• Understanding of agile methodologies.

• Fluent in written and spoken English.

Preferred Technical and Professional Expertise

• OpenTelemetry.

Experience with one of the following:

• Java Runtime API for tracing and profiling.

• NET Runtime for tracing and profiling.

• PHP Runtime for tracing and profiling.

• Extended Berkeley Packet Filter (ePBF).

About Business UnitIBM's Cloud and Cognitive software business is committed to bringing the power of IBM's Cloud and Watson/AI technologies to life for our clients and ecosystem partners around the world. IBM provides you with the most comprehensive and consistent approach to development, security and operations across hybrid environments-with complete software solutions for business and IT operations, development, data science, security, and management. Our experts and software capabilities help organizations develop applications once and deploy them anywhere, integrate security across the breadth of their IT estate, and automate operations with management visibility. With IBM, you also have access to new skills and methods, governance and management approaches, and a deep ecosystem of industry experts and partners.

Your Life @ IBMIn 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 IBMIBM'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 50 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.

Location StatementMust have the ability to work in Canada without sponsorship.

This role will involve working with technology that is covered by Export Regulations sanctions. If you are a Foreign National from any of the following US sanctioned countries (Cuba, Iran, North Korea, Syria, and the Crimea, Luhansk, Donetsk, Kherson, and Zaporizhia regions of Ukraine) on a work permit, you are not eligible for employment in this position.

Being You @ IBMIBM is committed to creating a diverse environment and 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, caste, genetics, pregnancy, disability, neurodivergence, age, veteran status, or other characteristics. IBM is also committed to compliance with all fair employment practices regarding citizenship and immigration status.