Software Engineer (Full-Stack, UI-Heavy), Confluent TEAR Team, Security POD

Introduction

At IBM Software, we transform client challenges into solutions. Building the world’s leading AI-powered, cloud-native products that shape the future of business and society. Our legacy of innovation creates endless opportunities for IBMers to learn, grow, and make an impact on a global scale. Working in Software means joining a team fueled by curiosity and collaboration. You’ll work with diverse technologies, partners, and industries to design, develop, and deliver solutions that power digital transformation. With a culture that values innovation, growth, and continuous learning, IBM Software places you at the heart of IBM’s product and technology landscape. Here, you’ll have the tools and opportunities to advance your career while creating software that changes the world. With Confluent, data doesn’t sit still. We put information in motion, streaming in near real time so organizations can react faster, build smarter, and deliver experiences as dynamic as the world around them.

Your Role And Responsibilities

About the Team

The TEAR team's Security UI POD builds and operates the systems that keep Confluent Cloud and its customers secure — [authentication/authorization, RBAC, secrets and key management, audit logging, vulnerability remediation, and security tooling/guardrails for other teams]. Security work is high-trust and high-impact: correctness and a careful, defense-in-depth mindset are non-negotiable, and our work protects customer data and the platform's integrity. We partner closely with Product, AppSec, Platform, and engineering teams across the org.

This is a full-stack role, but it leans UI-heavy — you'll spend the majority of your time building security and identity experiences in React, Redux, and TypeScript, while still being able to make changes in the identity backend as needed ([backend: e.g., Go / Java]) as needed to deliver a feature end to end. Our stack runs on Kubernetes on [AWS/GCP/Azure], with [Postgres, Kafka, Grafana, OpenSearch].

What You'll Do

• Deliver well-scoped tasks within the Security UI POD on time and with quality, with mentorship from senior engineers as you grow your craft.
• Build rich, intuitive frontend experiences (in React, Redux, and TypeScript) for security and identity workflows — this is where you'll spend most of your time.
• Make changes in the identity backend as needed (e.g., [authN/authZ, RBAC, SSO/SAML/OIDC, session management]) so you can own a feature across the stack rather than just the UI layer.
• Learn the design and architecture of a security sub-component (e.g., [identity / RBAC / audit logging]) and become its go-to component expert.
• Write one-pagers for your sub-tasks and get them reviewed by peers and stakeholders; participate in design reviews and PR reviews.
• Apply a security-first mindset throughout — input validation, least privilege, safe defaults — across both UI and identity services.
• Learn Confluent's coding and software-development practices, dev-prod systems, and release process, and contribute to operational excellence (tests, monitoring, runbooks).
• Collaborate with AppSec and partner teams to implement and remediate security requirements.

Preferred Education

Master's Degree

Required Technical And Professional Expertise

What We're Looking For

• 1–2+ years of software engineering experience (strong new grads with relevant internships/projects welcome).
• Depth in frontend development with React, Redux, and TypeScript, and comfort working across the stack.
• Working proficiency in [backend language — e.g., Go, Java, C++, or another statically typed language], enough to make changes in the identity backend.
• Solid CS fundamentals and a growing understanding of distributed systems and cloud-native development.
• Interest in or exposure to security and identity concepts (authN/authZ, SSO/OIDC/SAML, encryption, common vulnerability classes, secure coding).
• Eagerness to learn, take feedback, and work closely with mentors.
• Strong communication, collaboration, and ownership of your tasks.
• You have a frontend craft mindset — you care about UX quality, performance, and maintainable component architecture — while being comfortable dipping into the identity backend when a feature needs it.
• You bring a security-first mindset — careful, detail-oriented, and curious about how things can go wrong.
• You're eager to learn a domain deeply and become the trusted owner of a component.
• You take pride in delivering well-scoped work reliably and on time.

Preferred Technical And Professional Experience

• coursework, internships, certifications, CTF/security-project experience, or exposure to identity, cryptography, or cloud security