The Senior Engineer II will focus on backend development, designing and implementing features, collaborating with teams, managing large projects, and debugging issues. Responsibilities include mentoring engineers, reviewing code quality, and advocating for technical initiatives to enhance system effectiveness.
About the team - Engineering at HashiCorp
On the HashiCorp engineering team, we build the Infrastructure Cloud which allows enterprises to take a unified approach to Infrastructure and Security Lifecycle Management:
Infrastructure Lifecycle Management: Build / Deploy / Manage
- Terraform allows you to use infrastructure as code to provision and manage any infrastructure across your organization.
- Packer standardizes image workflows across cloud providers, allowing teams to build, govern and manage any image for any cloud.
- Waypoint makes infrastructure easily accessible at scale, enabling platform teams to deliver golden patterns and workflows with an internal developer platform.
- Nomad brings modern application scheduling to any type of software, allowing you to manage containers, binaries and VMs efficiently in the cloud, on-premises and across edge environments.
Security Lifecycle Management: Protect / Inspect / Connect
- Vault provides organizations with identity-based security to automatically authenticate and authorize access to secrets and other sensitive data.
- Boundary standardizes secure remote access across dynamic environments, allowing organizations to connect users and manage access with identity-based security controls.
- Consul standardizes service networking, allowing you to discover and securely connect any service across any runtime with identity-based service networking.
We deliver the Infrastructure Cloud through an enterprise-grade unified SaaS platform, HCP, as well as to enterprises through self-managed/on-premises options.
Across product engineering and platform engineering teams, we are looking for great engineers to come join us in developing the Infrastructure Cloud!
What you’ll do (responsibilities)
We’re looking for Senior Engineers with a deep backend focus to join our team. In this role, you can expect to:
- Design, prototype and implement features and tools while ensuring stability and usability
- Collaborate closely with Product Design and Product Management partners, as well as engineers on your team and others
- Act as a subject matter expert on quality development with an emphasis on Golang development
- Lead and execute large-scale projects, ensuring the reliable delivery of key features from design through full implementation and troubleshooting.
- Drive end-to-end project lifecycle, including architecture design, implementation, and issue resolution, with a focus on quality and efficiency.
- Evaluate project tradeoffs and propose solutions, proactively removing blockers and keeping stakeholders informed on progress, issues, and milestones.
- Collaborate with internal teams, customers, and external stakeholders to design solutions that align with requirements and customer needs.
- Advocate for strategic technical roadmap initiatives that enhance the system’s overall effectiveness across teams and the organization.
- Debug and resolve complex issues to improve the quality and stability of products or solutions
- Review and assess code for quality, design patterns, and optimization opportunities, ensuring best practices are followed
- Mentor and guide software engineers, sharing technical knowledge and promoting best practices in development processes
- Facilitate collaborative team activities, such as code pairing and group troubleshooting, to foster a productive and cohesive team environment
- Support reliable production environments, including participating in an oncall rotation
- Strive for quality through maintainable code and comprehensive testing from development to deployment
What you’ll need (basic qualifications)
- You have at least 6+ years of experience as an engineer
- You have professional experience developing with modern programming languages and frameworks, and are interested in working in Golang and Ruby specifically
- You have experience working with distributed systems, particularly on a cloud provider such as AWS, Azure or GCP, with a focus on scalability, resilience and security.
- Emerging ability to direct work and influence others, with a strategic approach to problem-solving and decision-making in a collaborative environment
- Demonstrated business acumen and customer focus, with a readiness for change and adaptability in dynamic situations
- Cloud-native mindset and solid understanding of DevOps principles in a cloud environment
- Familiarity with cloud monitoring tools to implement robust observability practices that prioritize metrics, logging and tracing for high reliability and performance.
- Intentional focus on stakeholder management and effective communication, fostering trust and relationship-building across diverse teams
- Integrated skills in critical thinking and data-driven analysis, promoting a growth mindset and continuous improvement to support high-quality outcomes
What's nice to have (preferred qualifications)
- You have experience using HashiCorp products (Terraform, Packer, Waypoint, Nomad, Vault, Boundary, Consul).
- You have prior experience working in cloud platform engineering teams #LI-Hybrid
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