Sr Software Engineer - Terraform Foundations

About the role

Employer: (0147) International Business Machines Corporation

Improve release safety and reliability
* Lead work on release pipelines, canary signals, and verification so changes reach production safely.
* Help make database migrations safer and more self-service for application teams.

Make production measurable
* Drive deep observability for foundational services, including SLOs, alerting, and log delivery.
* Turn production signals into prioritized, systemic fixes.

Evolve the architecture ahead of scale
* Design and deliver technically deep improvements across Aurora PostgreSQL, Redis, Sidekiq, and Puma.
* Spot scale pressures before they become incidents, and plan capacity accordingly.

Lead incident response
* Take part in our 24/7 on-call rotation and serve as a senior escalation point.
* Lead incident reviews so no production failure recurs without a systemic fix, in a blameless and psychologically safe environment.

Lead across teams and grow others
* Lead cross-team initiatives, working closely with Cloud Platform Engineering, Agent Core & Services, Web Engineering, and feature teams.
* Mentor engineers through code review, pairing, and design feedback. Improve our runbooks, onboarding, and documentation.
* Present technical direction and outcomes to technical and non-technical audiences.