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Software Engineer - OpenSearch

Datastax

Full Time
Senior
11 days ago

Job Description

About the Role

A career in IBM Software means you'll be part of a team that transforms our customer's 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. 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.

Key Responsibilities

  • Develop new features, enhancements, and bug-fixes on DataStax AI PaaS, powered by Open Search, Apache Cassandra and Langflow
  • Find innovative ways to do a bi-directional integration between Open Search and Apache Cassandra
  • Collaborate extensively with internal teams and open source communities to innovate at speed
  • Model solid engineering practices around architectural design, testability, scalability and maintainability
  • Foster community growth through your involvement in the Open Search community

Requirements

  • Minimum of 7-9 years of relevant industry experience in Software Engineering
  • Ability to iterate fast and make a tradeoff between quality and speed of delivery
  • Substantial experience programming distributed and high throughput applications
  • Deep knowledge of Java and JVM ecosystem of open source libraries and projects
  • Deep understanding of algorithms, data structures and software design
  • Strong coding skills with Java
  • Familiarity with Python and Golang will be an advantage
  • Comfortable handling problems related to concurrency and distributed computing
  • Experience with at least one major public cloud provider

Nice to Have

  • Prior experience contributing to open source projects including but not limited to Open Search and ElasticSearch is highly desirable
  • Experience with Go, Docker, and Kubernetes is a plus

Working at Datastax

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. 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 approaches 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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Job Details

Posted AtJul 14, 2025
SalaryCompetitive salary
Job TypeFull Time
Work ModeHybrid
ExperienceSenior

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