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Software Backend Developer

IBM

Software Engineering

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Posted on Feb 25, 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

As a Back-End Developer: Systems, you will design and develop offering solutions for Systems using the latest technologies. You will work on developing software, including open source software, and driving community best practices in IBM processes. Your primary responsibilities will include: • Design and Develop Solutions: Develops using object-oriented programming, multi-threading, and concurrency to create innovative solutions for Systems. • Plan and Construct Databases: Plans, analyzes, designs, and constructs databases, implementing industry standards and best practices for database security. • Develop SQL Queries: Develops structured query language (SQL) queries, back-end database stored procedures, or NoSQL queries to meet business requirements. • Test and Deliver Software: Designs, develops, tests, and delivers software, working effectively with open source communities for Systems. • Drive Best Practices: Drives community best practices in IBM processes, ensuring the adoption of industry standards and best practices for database security and information security requirements.

Required education

Bachelor's Degree

Preferred education

Bachelor's Degree

Required technical and professional expertise

Hands-on experience in core systems development, with a strong focus on low-level or platform engineering.

Expert-level proficiency in C/C++ programming, including memory

management, performance optimization, and debugging of complex

system-level issues.

Strong foundation in algorithms and data structures, with practical

experience implementing efficient data/file structures in performance-

critical environments.

Deep understanding of Unix/Linux internals, including process

management, memory management, file systems, and system calls.

Extensive hands-on experience in multi-threaded programming and

synchronization mechanisms, such as mutexes, semaphores, spinlocks, and condition variables.

Knowhow in kernel or near-kernel level programming, including

debugging, performance tuning, and working with system-level components.

Preferred technical and professional experience

Experience in performance analysis and optimization.

Strong debugging skills using dbx, gdb, modern debuggers.

Knowledge of build systems, CI/CD pipelines, and code review

practices in system-level projects.

Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with the ability to mentor

junior engineers.

Years of Experience:
12 - 20

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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