Software Developer

IBM

IBM

Software Engineering

Pune, Maharashtra, India

Posted on May 20, 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.

Your role and responsibilities

We're looking for an experienced, motivated hands-on engineer who brings ideas about large-scale design, security, Cloud, and testing technologies; As a senior software developer, you'll apply your deep expertise in designing, developing and delivering an Integrated Pipeline required to deliver our world class data security solution. You need to be versatile, display leadership qualities and open minded to take on new problems that our customers face.

IBM Guardium Data Protection is a market leader in the data security domain. This enterprise-grade product protects sensitive data across hybrid cloud environments, databases, data warehouses, big data platforms, and file systems, serving thousands of customers globally.

IBM Software Developers perform DevOps/platform Engineering. They design, develop, test, and deliver offerings using leading edge and/or proven technologies. They work in an Agile, collaborative environment to understand stakeholder requirements. They design, code, and test innovative component-level software solutions; ensure that the implemented solutions are unit-tested and ready to be integrated into their product. They contribute to the automated CI/CD pipeline that takes their code through the various quality stages, and also debug customer-reported problems: designs, develops and unit tests code fixes.

Essential Job Functions

  • Analyzes and designs pipeline modules, features or components required for an optimum CICD solution

  • Configure Orchestration frameworks for continuous deployment

  • Develops, tests, documents and maintains complex software delivery pipelines for assigned systems, applications and/or products. Gathers and evaluates software project requirements and apprises appropriate individual(s)

  • Codes, tests and debugs new pipelines or enhances existing pipelines

  • Troubleshoots and resolves or recommends solutions to complex software problems

  • Provides senior level support and mentoring by evaluating pipeline enhancements for feasibility studies and providing completion time estimates. Assists management with the planning, scheduling, and assigning of projects to software development personnel

  • Ensures product quality by participating in design reviews, code reviews, and other mechanisms

  • Lead release management process and coordinate cross-functional teams for release planning

  • Establish quality gates and release criteria for Guardium products

  • Drive automation metrics and KPIs across the development lifecycle

  • Works in an agile, collaborative environment to build, deploy, configure, and maintain systems, which may include software installations, updates, and core services

  • Ensures delivery pipeline from dev/test, staging and production and perform A/B testing

  • Automates, measures and optimizes the system performance, availability, and processes

  • Designs and implements tools for automated deployment and monitoring of multiple environments

  • Leverage AI-powered development tools (such as GitHub Copilot, IBM Bob, or similar) to accelerate pipeline development, automate infrastructure code generation, and optimize DevOps workflows

  • Champion the adoption of AI/ML techniques for predictive analytics, intelligent alerting, and automated incident response in CI/CD pipelines

Required education
Bachelor's Degree
Required technical and professional expertise
Required Skills and Competencies

  • Familiarity with continuous integration and continuous delivery

  • Rich experience in automated pipeline-based delivery from development to production

  • Ability to design and implement automated pipelines that are testable, re-usable and easy to maintain

  • Understanding of secure engineering practices and implement these using pipelines

  • Background in automation using Jenkins (configuration, job management, writing shared libraries, hooks etc.)

  • Ability to design and maintain tasks in Gradle, NPM and Docker

  • Expertise in source code management (preferably GIT)

  • Knowledge of logging frameworks or ELK(Elastic, logstash, Kibana)

  • Working knowledge of Kubernetes

  • Experience with deploying application in at least one major public cloud provider (IBM Cloud, AWS, Azure, etc) or large scale private/hybrid cloud using container orchestration such as OpenShift

  • Good problem-solving skills and proficiency in Java or Groovy

  • Ability to manage multiple projects, while ensuring that commitments and timelines are met

  • Strong leadership and team management skills

  • Works with development teams to enable a continuous integration environment that sustains high productivity levels and emphasizes defect prevention techniques

  • Proficiency in using AI-assisted development tools to enhance productivity and code quality

Good to Have Skills and Competencies

  • Using and configuring Artifactory

  • Strong scripting skills in at least one language (BASH, Python, Ruby, Go)

  • Familiarity with a configuration management framework (Puppet, Ansible, Chef, etc.)

  • Experience with monitoring frameworks (Nagios, Prometheus, etc)

  • Knowledge of security compliance and audit requirements

  • Experience with test automation frameworks (Cypress, Selenium)

  • Works with tools like Jenkins, Maven, Ant, Gradle, Chef, Puppet, Docker, and UrbanCode

  • Experience with AI/ML-powered DevOps tools for predictive maintenance, intelligent monitoring, or automated remediation

  • Hands-on experience with GitHub Copilot, IBM Bob, or similar AI coding assistants

  • Knowledge of AIOps platforms and their integration into CI/CD pipelines

  • Experience with AI-driven code review tools and automated security scanning

Years of Experience:
8 - 12

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.

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