C/C++/Rust Developer

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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).