Introduction
At IBM Watson orders, work is more than a job – it’s a calling: To build. To design. To code. To consult. To think along with clients and sell. To make markets. To invent. To collaborate. Not just to do something better, but to attempt things you’ve never thought possible. Are you ready to lead in this new era of technology and solve some of the world’s most challenging problems? If so, let's talk.
Your Role and Responsibilities
This role is looking for a talented engineer to help own, manage, and develop the common runtime and build tooling for the IBM Watson Orders offering.
- Own the core build tooling for our Python monorepo built with pants.
- Develop and maintain internal build tool plugins and development environment tooling.
- Own and develop the integration of our python tooling stacks: python3.8, pytest, flake8, pylint, mypy, 150+ pypi libs.
- Provide integration support for IDEs in our build and test environment (VSCode, IntelliJ).
- Develop and maintain engineer-facing build, test, profile, static analysis, and release tooling.
- Serve as an owner in the continuous process of maintaining the canon of “Best Practices” including the policy judgement made around code style, documentation conventions, calling patterns, and library use including identifying and migrating to common third-party libraries, where appropriate.
- Educate the engineering teams on best practices, and where possible, automate enforcement and migrate existing code to ensure compliance.
- Define and maintain the environment defined by a “correct” checkout of the dev environment, the associated automated tooling, as well as the “correct” integration with various IDEs and profiling tooling.
- Provide technical support and training to engineers on the use of the development environment.
Required Technical and Professional Expertise
- 5+ years of professional experience in Python
- 3+ years of experience in Linux environments
- 3+ years of professional experience in Bash Shell Scripting
- Quick learner and ability to quickly add value to the team
Preferred Technical And Professional Expertise
- Strong knowledge of python language, runtime, and ecosystem
- Experience with tooling in monorepos
- Pants or similar core build system
What we offer
- Working for a top 5 IT company according to Forbes 2022 best employers ranking
- International and prestigious projects
- Highly skilled teams of experts
- Wide range of IBM trainings and certificates
- Access to Udemy, Harvard Business Review, O’Reilly, Interskill, IBM AI Skills Academy
- Contract of employment
- Competitive compensation – salary range, depending on your skills and experience
- Private medical care and life insurance
- Employee Assistance Program
- Sport, charity & other networking groups
- Summer / winter camps for children
- Discounts with IBM employee badge
- Referral Bonus Program
- Home office option
- No dress code
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 data centers, 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 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.
Your Life @ IBM
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Location Statement
For additional information about location requirements, please discuss with the recruiter following submission of your application.
Being You @ IBM
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