Cloud Platform Software Engineer - OpenRAG / Opensearch

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Your role and responsibilities

DataStax, an IBM company, has roots in several open‑source projects such as Apache Cassandra, Open Search, Apache Pulsar, and Langflow. Astra DB is a wildly successful cloud‑native database as a service (DBaaS) powered by Apache Cassandra. We are now working toward a hosted version of Open Search so that our customers have comprehensive solutions to build GenAI applications to meet their transactional data and hybrid text search needs. We’re looking for a software engineer to join our Open Search Cloud Platform Engineering team. Our team owns the foundational infrastructure and services that enable customers to launch and manage the full lifecycle of their Open Search instances.

What you will do

• Design, develop, and maintain a wide variety of software and cloud infrastructure for Open Search as a Service across all public clouds.
• Design, develop, and maintain software microservices including k8s operators, primarily for the full lifecycle management of Open Search instances – both for single‑tenant and multi‑tenant offerings.
• Participate in on‑call activities, acting as a secondary on‑call support person for Production Engineering teams who require assistance with complex production issues.
• Define and implement the best practices that make Open Search capabilities boring to our customers – high uptime, high throughput, low latency at optimal cost.
• Enjoy a highly diverse, collaborative, and cross‑functional environment.
• Stays abreast of modern technologies and practices especially in the cloud‑native space.
• Fosters long‑term team success and contributes to a healthy work environment.

Required education

Preferred education

Required technical and professional expertise

Preferred technical and professional experience

ABOUT BUSINESS UNIT

IBM Software infuses core business operations with intelligence—from machine learning to generative AI—to help make organizations more responsive, productive, and resilient. IBM Software helps clients put AI into action now to create real value with trust, speed, and confidence across digital labour, IT automation, application modernization, security, and sustainability.

Critical to this is the ability to make use of all data, because AI is only as good as the data that fuels it. In most organizations data is spread across multiple clouds, on‑premises, in private datacentres, and at the edge. IBM’s AI and data platform scales and accelerates the impact of AI with trusted data, and provides leading capabilities to train, tune and deploy AI across business.

IBM’s hybrid cloud platform is one of the most comprehensive and consistent approaches to development, security, and operations across hybrid environments—a flexible foundation for leveraging data, wherever it resides, to extend AI deep into a business.

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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.

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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.

OTHER RELEVANT JOB DETAILS

Must 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.

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