**Introduction** Ready to grow your career in the Cloud? Want to have a feeling that you are making a difference? This is your chance to become an integral part of a dynamic team of talented professionals developing and deploying innovative, industry-leading, cloud-based platform services. **Your role and responsibilities** * Becoming an expert and major contributor for designs and implementation efforts of the IBM Cloud Platform Services ecosystem * Developing highly-available, distributed cloud services, with emphasis on security, scalability and user experience using technologies like Java, Node.js, Golang, Cloudant, Redis, Docker, Kubernetes, Istio and more. * Reading open specifications and RFC documents and converting them to design docs and implementation * Identifying opportunities and acting on improving existing tools, frameworks and DevSecOps workflows * Documenting and sharing your experience with team members, mentoring others IBM Cloud Platform Core Services is a growing, agile, dynamic organization building and operating leading-edge, highly-available, and distributed cloud services in IBM Cloud. We're looking for experienced cloud software engineers to join us. This technical role is focused on designing, developing and deploying cloud security services, automating wide ranges of tasks, problem-solving, interfacing with other teams, offering managers, and customers to solve complex problems. You will be part of a strong, agile, and modern team culture driven to create world-class development and deployment environments, delivering an industry leading user experience for our customers. As an integral part of the development team, you will get an opportunity to contribute to the cloud services architecture and design while helping us mentor the next generation of cloud engineers. **Required technical and professional expertise** * A minimum of a bachelor degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering or equivalent degree. * 2+ year experience working in Agile environment using Scrum or Kanban methodologies * 2+ year of hands-on development experience building applications with one or more of the following: Java, Node.js, Express.js, Golang, NoSQL DB, SQL, Redis, distributed caches, etc. * 2+ years of experience building and operating highly secured, distributed cloud services with one or more of the following: IBM Cloud, AWS, Azure, DevSecOps, SRE, CI/CD, Docker, container orchestration, performance testing, DevOps etc. * 2+ years of experience in one or more web technologies: HTTP, REST, JSON, HTML, JavaScript, etc. * Understanding of micro-service architecture and modern cloud programming practices. Strong ability to design a clean, developer-friendly API. * Passionate about constant, continuous learning and applying new technologies as well as mentoring others. * Keen troubleshooting skills and strong verbal/written communication skills. **Preferred technical and professional experience** * Understanding of cloud computing and cybersecurity principles * Experience in security or identity and access management * Experience with front end development specifically in react and/or angular * Experience in remotely supporting customer engagements to help driving the product adoption