Staff Software Engineer

Introduction

At IBM Software, we transform client challenges into solutions by 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.

Your role and responsibilities

The Secure Product Group organization, within the Automation business unit of IBM, is composed of Software Engineers, Product Managers, and Designers who build and operate Vault, Radar and Boundary. Your experience in IAM, SCIM and Identity Federation will be central to creating a shared runtime and control plane for a unified product suite. In this role, you can expect to:

• Drive Engineering and Operational Excellence: Set the standard for engineering excellence, driving best practices, architecture review processes, and operational maturity across the organization.

• Influence Technical Strategy: Apply deep knowledge of the business and advanced software engineering expertise to guide and influence the most challenging projects that are transformational, complex, high-risk, or technically demanding.

• Lead in Innovation: Anticipate, identify, and execute on innovative and visionary concepts for IBM/HashiCorp products and practices that drive the product roadmap, solve complex industry issues, and aim for game-changing market leadership.

• Steward Architecture: Shape the organization's technical direction on key technologies, architectural patterns, and client solutions, particularly in areas like reliable data lifecycle, secure orchestration, and control plane.

• Force Multiply the Cross-Functional Team: Act as a force multiplier by actively mentoring senior engineers, delegating high-leverage work, developing and building a sustainable, strong peer technical network to scale organizational impact.

Required technical and professional expertise

• A progressive experience in software engineering with modern programming languages like Golang, distributed systems, and enterprise services at scale. This includes rich experience operating in a Staff Engineer, Senior Staff Engineer or Principal Engineer capacity with demonstrated influence spanning multiple teams, product lines, or organizations.

• Proven ability to serve as the Technical Lead for challenging, business-critical, and highly complex projects, leading winning cross-functional teams to deliver strategic technical solutions with clarity and conviction. You have experience in IAM, SCIM and Identity Federation.

• Demonstrated experience crafting and successfully driving a multi-quarter/multi-year technical strategy and vision that aligns with product goals and anticipates future industry needs.

• Demonstrated communication skills that thrive in a document-based culture, leveraging both asynchronous and synchronous collaboration to effectively partner with, unblock, and guide your peers and leadership.

• A collaborative approach that emphasizes cross-functional inclusion for product management, design and engineering teams. Ability to navigate ambiguity while remaining empathetic and kind.

Preferred technical and professional experience

• You have experience using HashiCorp secure products (Vault, Radar, Boundary).

• You are familiar with domain driven design (DDD).

• You eagerly take on new challenges and are driven to deliver the highest quality solution.

• You pursue continuous self-improvement and a passion for mentoring others.

• You've reviewed [1] our principles, and they resonate with your professional values.

IBM 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.