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OpenJDK Security Developer

IBM

Software Engineering

California, USA · Texas City, TX, USA

Posted on Oct 17, 2025

Introduction

A career in IBM Software means you’ll be part of a team that transforms our customer’s challenges into solutions.

Seeking new possibilities and always staying curious, we are a team dedicated to creating the world’s leading AI-powered, cloud-native software solutions for our customers. Our renowned legacy creates endless global opportunities for our IBMers, so the door is always open for those who want to grow their career.

We are seeking a JVM developer to join our IBM OpenJDK Security team. As part of our team, you will be responsible for developing and maintaining high-quality OpenJDK releases, working with a variety of technologies and programming languages, ensuring correctness and verifying security patches, collaborating directly with the Vulnerability Group to ensure the safety of the Java platform for both upstream and downstream distributions.

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

As a key member in our dynamic team, you will be working directly with the upstream communities of OpenJDK on bug fixes and perform backports from later versions of OpenJDK to help maintain our list of supported versions of OpenJDK for our customers, as well as helping maintain the upstream codebase. You will work on security contributions for OpenJDK, spanning a number of topics such as security providers, post quantum cryptography, integrations with FIPS platforms and general day to day security analysis, debugging and patching.

You will work closely with the JVM team and the core libraries teams, participate in upstream and downstream development with an upstream first approach.

Required education

Associate's Degree/College Diploma

Preferred education

Bachelor's Degree

Required technical and professional expertise

Software Development Expertise: Strong background in software development, demonstrating expertise in programming languages, in particular Java and C++.
Self-Starter Mindest: A self-starter with a proactive mindset, able to initiate and drive projects independently, analyse and find problems and solve them with minimal guidance and supervision.
Excellent Problem-Solving Skills: Demonstrated excellence in problem-solving, with the ability to tackle complex issues and find effective solutions, and the ability to review other people’s code, understand complex code interrelation and find critical security vulnerabilities.
Collaborative Team Player: Ability to work seamlessly as part of a distributed team, contributing to collective goals and fostering a collaborative work environment, and the ability to work with upstream Open Source communities on public code.
Proven experience of cryptography standards
Proven experience of maintenance of legacy software
Excellent communication skills, both written and orally, in English

Preferred technical and professional experience

5 years of C/C++ experience
5 years of experience in software analysis and security testing
Excellent knowledge and understanding of the JVM language specification and the Java language
Having a role (Author, Committer, Reviewer, etc..) with the upstream OpenJDK project is a plus.
Experience with penetration testing, white hacking and code breaking processes is highly desired.
Experience with FIPS and Post Quantum cryptography is highly desired
Existing experience with the Java Garbage Collectors is a plus

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.

Are you ready to be an IBMer?

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.

IBM 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, genetics, pregnancy, disability, neurodivergence, age, or other characteristics protected by the applicable law. IBM is also committed to compliance with all fair employment practices regarding citizenship and immigration status.

OTHER RELEVANT JOB DETAILS

Must have the ability to work in Canada without sponsorship.

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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