Software Engineer (Full-Stack, UI-Heavy), Confluent TEAR Team, Security POD

IBM
IBM

Software Engineering, Product, Design

United States · Richland, WA, USA · Kennewick, WA, USA · Pasco, WA, USA · West Richland, WA, USA

Posted on Jul 28, 2026
Introduction

At IBM Software, we transform client challenges into solutions. 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. With Confluent, data doesn’t sit still. We put information in motion, streaming in near real time so organizations can react faster, build smarter, and deliver experiences as dynamic as the world around them.

Your role and responsibilities

About the Team

The TEAR team's Security UI POD builds and operates the systems that keep Confluent Cloud and its customers secure — [authentication/authorization, RBAC, secrets and key management, audit logging, vulnerability remediation, and security tooling/guardrails for other teams]. Security work is high-trust and high-impact: correctness and a careful, defense-in-depth mindset are non-negotiable, and our work protects customer data and the platform's integrity. We partner closely with Product, AppSec, Platform, and engineering teams across the org.

This is a full-stack role, but it leans UI-heavy — you'll spend the majority of your time building security and identity experiences in React, Redux, and TypeScript, while still being able to make changes in the identity backend as needed ([backend: e.g., Go / Java]) as needed to deliver a feature end to end. Our stack runs on Kubernetes on [AWS/GCP/Azure], with [Postgres, Kafka, Grafana, OpenSearch].

What You'll Do

  • Deliver well-scoped tasks within the Security UI POD on time and with quality, with mentorship from senior engineers as you grow your craft.
  • Build rich, intuitive frontend experiences (in React, Redux, and TypeScript) for security and identity workflows — this is where you'll spend most of your time.
  • Make changes in the identity backend as needed (e.g., [authN/authZ, RBAC, SSO/SAML/OIDC, session management]) so you can own a feature across the stack rather than just the UI layer.
  • Learn the design and architecture of a security sub-component (e.g., [identity / RBAC / audit logging]) and become its go-to component expert.
  • Write one-pagers for your sub-tasks and get them reviewed by peers and stakeholders; participate in design reviews and PR reviews.
  • Apply a security-first mindset throughout — input validation, least privilege, safe defaults — across both UI and identity services.
  • Learn Confluent's coding and software-development practices, dev-prod systems, and release process, and contribute to operational excellence (tests, monitoring, runbooks).
  • Collaborate with AppSec and partner teams to implement and remediate security requirements.

Required education
Bachelor's Degree
Preferred education
Master's Degree
Required technical and professional expertise

What We're Looking For

  • 1–2+ years of software engineering experience (strong new grads with relevant internships/projects welcome).
  • Depth in frontend development with React, Redux, and TypeScript, and comfort working across the stack.
  • Working proficiency in [backend language — e.g., Go, Java, C++, or another statically typed language], enough to make changes in the identity backend.
  • Solid CS fundamentals and a growing understanding of distributed systems and cloud-native development.
  • Interest in or exposure to security and identity concepts (authN/authZ, SSO/OIDC/SAML, encryption, common vulnerability classes, secure coding).
  • Eagerness to learn, take feedback, and work closely with mentors.
  • Strong communication, collaboration, and ownership of your tasks.
  • You have a frontend craft mindset — you care about UX quality, performance, and maintainable component architecture — while being comfortable dipping into the identity backend when a feature needs it.
  • You bring a security-first mindset — careful, detail-oriented, and curious about how things can go wrong.
  • You're eager to learn a domain deeply and become the trusted owner of a component.
  • You take pride in delivering well-scoped work reliably and on time.
Preferred technical and professional experience
  • coursework, internships, certifications, CTF/security-project experience, or exposure to identity, cryptography, or cloud security

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 labor, 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 datacenters, 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 approach to development, security, and operations across hybrid environments—a flexible foundation for leveraging data, wherever it resides, to extend AI deep into a business.

YOUR LIFE @ IBM

In a world where technology never stands still, we understand that, dedication to our clients success, innovation that matters, and trust and personal responsibility in all our relationships, lives in what we do as IBMers as we strive to be the catalyst that makes the world work better.

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.

Our IBMers are growth minded, always staying curious, open to feedback and learning new information and skills to constantly transform themselves and our company. They are trusted to provide on-going feedback to help other IBMers grow, as well as collaborate with colleagues keeping in mind a team focused approach to include different perspectives to drive exceptional outcomes for our customers. The courage our IBMers have to make critical decisions everyday is essential to IBM becoming the catalyst for progress, always embracing challenges with resources they have to hand, a can-do attitude and always striving for an outcome focused approach within everything that they do.

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ABOUT IBM

IBM’s greatest invention is the IBMer. We believe that through the application of intelligence, reason and science, we can improve business, society and the human condition, bringing the power of an open hybrid cloud and AI strategy to life for our clients and partners around the world.

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.

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OTHER RELEVANT JOB DETAILS

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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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