Database System Developer - Entry Level

Introduction
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Your Role and Responsibilities
Who We Are:
We’re looking for software development candidates to help shape the future of IBM data management portfolio of fundamental importance to IBM’s strategic direction on hybrid data management offerings for IBM DB2 IBM Cloud Pak for Data and watsonx.data (IBM’s lakehouse for AI workloads).

The capability is the next generation of distributed highly parallelized enterprise data systems capabilities so key to the industry’s future. You’ll work alongside local and global (in Asia Europe and North America) multidisciplinary teams of Developers Architects Engineers DevOp’s and Analysts creating the future of enterprise data management in the context of AI.

Who You Are:
You understand relational database management systems and are familiar with their inner workings including SQL no-SQL and API based data access. You are proficient in one or more programming languages e.g. C/C++ Java Golang. You may have direct experience working with some open source data management systems such as Spark Hive or Hadoop. You are aware and attentive as to performance implications as well as the user experience of what you create. You are relentless in seeking out opportunity to innovate and automate to maximise you and your teams productivity through Agile and DevOps principles. You have strong communication skills; describe yourself as: self-motivated hardworking and reliable. Because we will depend on you for our joint success. You are passionate about technology and software you have extremely strong analytical problem-solving and troubleshooting skills.

The IBM values culture and high performance environment resonate with your growth mind set.

What You’ll Do:

IBM Data and AI division are looking for a developer to join a team developing IBM’s data management portfolio on a flexible multicloud data platform.

You will join a squad integrated into a wider geographically distributed organisation you will participate in the development of the next generation of distributed highly parallelized enterprise data management capability for your squad’s mandate on a flexible multicloud data platform. We are looking for skilled developer with an understanding of RDBM systems a familiarity with existing data management stacks and strong communication skills. Being self-motivated hardworking problem solving with a focus on quality and performance are keys to succeeding.

The successful candidate will be expected to deliver incremental value to our product in their area of expertise to deliver product on a regular cadence. Our product must be ship ready on our sprint boundaries usually a two week cadence.

You will participate with senior leaders in architectural activities such as requirements gathering and solution definition to meet our customer’s needs.

Required Technical and Professional Expertise

• Early professional or graduate in software development
• Proficient in one or more of the following programming languages C / C++ / Java / python / Go Lang.
• Familiarity with high performance distributed systems implementation techniques.
• Working knowledge of network protocols such as TCP/IP HTTP etc.
• Good understanding of Linux Operating Systems (such as Red Hat Ubuntu etc.) and containerised technologies such as Docker & Kubernetes.
• Working knowledge of version Control systems like Github and build tools like Make Maven/Gradle.
• Exposure to professional software engineering practices using such tools and methodologies as Agile Software Development Test Driven Development Continuous Integration and source code management.
• Ability to learn and apply new technologies quickly.
• Strong sense of ownership of deliverables.
• Well versed with agile DevOps and continuous delivery

Preferred Technical and Professional Expertise

• Development deployment experience one or more Cloud environments (e.g AWS Azure IBM Cloud Google Cloud etc.)
• Experience with SQL C/C++ Go Lang python development and various scripting languages such as bash.
• Expertise in Core Java Java J2EE MicroServices Architecture.
• Experience in federated data technologies like GaianDb a distinct advantage.
• Experience in connectivity and ETL from multiple data sources desirable.
• Experience of distributed / HPC computing
• Experience of BigData & Hadoop software stack: HDFS Hive HBase Ambari
• Experience developing compilers and / or RDBMs
• Experience in system & low level programming (TCP/IP multi-threading IPC) on the Linux platform
• Experience working in a globally distributed product based engineering team
• Hands on experience in handling and debugging customer issues work with L2 support team.