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Cloud Software Engineer

IBM

IBM

Software Engineering
Budapest, Hungary
Posted on Feb 19, 2026
Introduction

At IBM Infrastructure & Technology, we design and operate the systems that keep the world running. From high-resiliency mainframes and hybrid cloud platforms to networking, automation, and site reliability. Our teams ensure the performance, security, and scalability that clients and industries depend on every day. Working in Infrastructure & Technology means tackling complex challenges with curiosity and collaboration. You’ll work with diverse technologies and colleagues worldwide to deliver resilient, future-ready solutions that power innovation. With continuous learning, career growth, and a supportive culture, IBM provides the opportunities to build expertise and shape the infrastructure that drives progress.

Your role and responsibilities

The IBM Cloud Data Services teams are responsible for developing and operating the Software as a Service (SaaS) offerings that provide Data Services in IBM Cloud.

As a Cloud Software Engineer, you will design, develop, test, and deliver offerings using leading-edge and/or proven technologies. You will work in an Agile, collaborative environment to understand stakeholder requirements and contribute to the development of innovative software solutions. Your primary responsibilities will include:

  • Develop Component-Level Solutions: Design, code, and test innovative component-level software solutions, ensuring that the implemented solutions are unit tested and ready to be integrated into their product.
  • Contribute to CI/CD Pipeline: Contribute to the automated CI/CD pipeline that takes code through various quality stages, ensuring seamless integration and delivery.
  • Debug Customer-Reported Problems: Design, develop, and unit test code fixes for customer-reported problems, collaborating with stakeholders to resolve issues efficiently.
  • Deliver Offerings: Deliver offerings using leading-edge and/or proven technologies, working closely with stakeholders to meet requirements and expectations.
  • Collaborate in Agile Environment: Work in an Agile, collaborative environment to understand stakeholder requirements, aligning with team goals and objectives.

We are a "You build it, You run it" culture. As a developer, you will join our follow-the-sun rotation where you will be the primary responder for automated system alerts. You will also join the out-of-hours on-call rota to support the service outside of daily business hours and over the weekend.

Required education
Bachelor's Degree
Preferred education
Bachelor's Degree
Required technical and professional expertise
  • Exposure to Back-End Development: Experience working with back-end development technologies, designing, developing, testing, and delivering offerings using leading-edge and/or proven technologies.
  • Component-Level Solution Development: Exposure to designing, coding, and testing innovative component-level software solutions, ensuring unit testing and readiness for integration into products.
  • DevOps Engineering: Experience working with DevOps engineering principles, contributing to the automated CI/CD pipeline, and ensuring seamless integration and delivery.
  • Debugging and Problem-Solving: Exposure to debugging customer-reported problems, designing, developing, and unit testing code fixes, and collaborating with stakeholders to resolve issues efficiently.
  • Agile Environment Collaboration: Experience working in an Agile, collaborative environment, understanding stakeholder requirements, and aligning with team goals and objectives.
  • This roles requires the candidate to have fluent written and spoken English.
Preferred technical and professional experience
  • Database and Kafka skills: Experience developing applications or as a system admin for Apache Kafka and databases such as MongoDB, CouchDB, Postgresql

ABOUT BUSINESS UNIT

IBM Systems helps IT leaders think differently about their infrastructure. IBM servers and storage are no longer inanimate - they can understand, reason, and learn so our clients can innovate while avoiding IT issues. Our systems power the world’s most important industries and our clients are the architects of the future. Join us to help build our leading-edge technology portfolio designed for cognitive business and optimized for cloud computing.

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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