Build Systems Engineer – Python

Job Overview

Introduction

A career in IBM Software means you’ll be part of a team that transforms our customers 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.

Your Role and Responsibilities

Join IBM’s worldwide design organization for AI Applications, where our mission is to empower users to do their best work through intuitive and visually engaging interfaces. As a Designer, you’ll play a crucial role in creating end-to-end customer experiences for AI-enabled solutions that help businesses make informed, data-driven decisions.

Responsibilities

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 libsProvide integration support for IDEs in our build and test environment (VSCode, IntelliJ)Develop and maintain engineer-facing build, test, profile, static analysis, and release toolingServe 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-partylibraries, where appropriate.Educate the engineering teams on best practices, and where possible, automate enforcement and migrate existing code to ensure complianceDefine and maintain the environment defined by a “correct” checkout of the dev environment, the associated automated tooling, as wellas the “correct” integration with various IDEs and profiling toolingProvide technical support and training to engineers on the use of the development environment

Required Technical and Professional Expertise

5+ years of professional experience in Python3+ years of experience in Linux environments3+ years of professional experience in Bash Shell ScriptingQuick learner and ability to quickly add value to the team

Preferred Technical And Professional Expertise

Strong knowledge of python language, runtime, and ecosystemExperience with tooling in monoreposPants or similar core build system

What we offer:

Working for a top 5 IT company according to Forbes 2022 best employers rankingInternational and prestigious projectsHighly skilled teams of expertsWide range of IBM trainings and certificatesAccess to Udemy, Harvard Business Review, O’Reilly, Interskill, IBM AI Skills Academy

And what is more:

Contract of employmentCompetitive compensation – salary range, depending on your skills and experiencePrivate medical care and life insuranceEmployee Assistance ProgramSport, charity & other networking groupsSummer / winter camps for childrenDiscounts with IBM employee badgeReferral Bonus ProgramHome office optionNo 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 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.

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.

Location Statement

For additional information about location requirements, please discuss with the recruiter following submission of your application.

Being You @ IBM

IBM is committed to creating a diverse environment and 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.