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Java Software Developer - Product Operations Lead for Red Hat build of Apache Camel (m/f/x)

IBM

Software Engineering, Product, Operations

California, USA · Texas City, TX, USA

Posted on Dec 10, 2025

Introduction

A career in IBM Software means you’ll be part of a team that transforms customer 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 skilled Java developer to join our IBM Software team as Product Operations Lead for the Red Hat build of Apache Camel product. In this role, you will understand how customers use the product to amplify the user experience throughout the development cycle. You will work directly with product management and engineering leadership to deliver data-driven customer insights. You will also be responsible for developing and maintaining high-quality software products, working with a variety of technologies.

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

Collaborating with product management and engineering leadership on defining the direction of the product.
Triaging new customer issues weekly.
Tracking customer usage trends and providing analysis to leadership.
Acting as a high-level subject matter expert for debugging/troubleshooting and resolving product-related issues during critical customer situations or escalations.
Providing technical review of support exceptions.
Helping define product lifecycle with product management and engineering leadership.
Maintaining customer-facing product release and patch documentation.
Assist with the design, development, and optimization of the product.
Collaborate with the Apache Camel community to shape roadmap priorities.
Mentor other engineers and review code for quality, scalability, and maintainability.
Represent the team in internal and external forums, advocating for best practices and community engagement.

Required education

None

Preferred education

Bachelor's Degree

Required technical and professional expertise

Advanced Java proficiency: 10+ years of hands-on experience with Java development, with strong expertise in modern Java (preferably Java 17+)
Enterprise Integration Knowledge:
- Strong understanding of messaging systems, transactional systems and Enterprise Integration Patterns.
- In depth experience with Apache Camel.
Customer focus:
- Must have experience working directly with customers and also with customer support staff.
- Experience using data analysis to identify customer trends.
Ability to work in a geographically distributed team:
- Proven ability to work with a highly distributed development team, using open source development methodologies and tools.
Cloud-Native Application Fundamentals:
- Hands-on experience or strong conceptual understanding of containerized application development (Docker, Kubernetes).

Preferred technical and professional experience

Experience with Quarkus and/or Spring Boot.
Contributions to open source projects, particularly in the Java, integration, or cloud-native space.
Experience with Red Hat Middleware products.

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.

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