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Cloudant CDP Software Engineer

IBM

2 - 5 years

Hyderabad

Posted: 25/07/2025

Job Description

Introduction

IBM Cloudant NoSQL DB is a globally distributed Database-as-a-Service (DBaaS) designed for developers of large and fast-growing applications. Hundreds of organisations around the world rely on Cloudant to keep their data online 24/7. This includes IBM Cloud itself, where Cloudant underpins many critical Cloud components. We help customers achieve their goals by providing a rock-solid, high availability database that can scale with their needs and replicate their data to many global locations to keep their applications performant and robust to failure.

 

Learn more about IBM Cloudant at https://www.ibm.com/products/cloudant.

Your role and responsibilities
About the role

Cloudant is looking for a motivated backend software engineer to join our team. You will be part of integrating our database into IBM Cloud with a particular focus on working on our migration to a new, Kubernetes-based platform. This will enable Cloudant’s continued delivery as a serverless, cloud-based database service. Successful candidates will be building services written in Python and Go, delivered using Kubernetes.

What you’ll do

  • Work with Cloudant’s technical leadership to deconstruct high level needs into technical deliverables and project milestones.

  • Take part in planning and executing our migration to a new Kubernetes-based platform.

  • Independently analyse, code and deploy features to production.

  • Lead small teams to deliver projects, ensuring high quality deliverables.

  • Maintain our strong culture of code reviews and feedback for continuous improvement.

  • Use automated CI and CD pipelines to deploy regularly.

What you’ll bring

  • Strong skills in one or more modern backend programming languages (eg Go, Python, Rust, Java).

  • Experience with container orchestration (eg, Kubernetes, AWS EKS, Google GKE, Nomad).

  • A proven ability to guide and grow the skills of junior engineers.

  • Enthusiasm for helping our support team resolve customer problems and improve our platform.

  • Confidence working in an environment that prioritises written communication.

  • Fluency in English and a capability to thrive in a global, multicultural and diverse environment.

Strong candidates may have experience in

  • Writing large quantities of production code in Go.

  • Writing Kubernetes operators (in any language).

  • Delivering stateful systems on Kubernetes (eg, database operators using StatefulSets).

  • Acting as technical leader to small groups of engineers working on several features concurrently.

Required education
Bachelor's Degree
Required technical and professional expertise

  • Strong skills in one or more modern backend programming languages (eg Go, Python, Rust, Java).

  • Experience with container orchestration (eg, Kubernetes, AWS EKS, Google GKE, Nomad).

  • A proven ability to guide and grow the skills of junior engineers.

  • Enthusiasm for helping our support team resolve customer problems and improve our platform.

  • Confidence working in an environment that prioritises written communication.

  • Fluency in English and a capability to thrive in a global, multicultural and diverse environment.

Preferred technical and professional experience

  • Writing large quantities of production code in Go.

  • Writing Kubernetes operators (in any language).

  • Delivering stateful systems on Kubernetes (eg, database operators using StatefulSets).

  • Acting as technical leader to small groups of engineers working on several features concurrently.

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 50 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, caste, genetics, pregnancy, disability, neurodivergence, age, veteran status, or other characteristics. IBM is also committed to compliance with all fair employment practices regarding citizenship and immigration status.


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About Company

IBM (International Business Machines Corporation) is a leading global technology and consulting company, headquartered in Armonk, New York. With over a century of innovation, IBM provides a wide range of technology solutions and professional services. The company specializes in cloud computing, artificial intelligence (AI), data analytics, quantum computing, and cybersecurity, helping organizations digitally transform their operations. IBM’s flagship AI platform, Watson, and its hybrid cloud capabilities are widely used across industries such as healthcare, finance, government, and manufacturing. IBM is known for its strong commitment to research and development, and it consistently ranks among the top organizations for U.S. patents.

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