Backend Engineer II - Platform (Multiple Openings)

HashiCorp, Inc.; United States; Remote; USD 151,000 - 178,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a forward-thinking company at the forefront of cloud infrastructure innovation! As a Mid-Level Engineer, you will develop and enhance the Infrastructure Cloud, working with cutting-edge technologies like Golang and various cloud platforms. This role offers the chance to design impactful features, collaborate with talented teams, and contribute to solutions that empower enterprises worldwide. If you're passionate about backend development and eager to tackle complex challenges in a dynamic environment, this opportunity is perfect for you. Embrace a culture of collaboration and continuous improvement while making a significant impact on the future of cloud infrastructure.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of engineering experience with a focus on backend development.
• Proficient in Golang and cloud-native environments.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement features while ensuring stability and usability.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to enhance product quality.

Skills

Golang

Distributed Systems

Cloud Providers (AWS, Azure, GCP)

DevOps Principles

Code Review & Refactoring

Test Writing

Mentoring

Customer Focus

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Terraform

Packer

Waypoint

Nomad

Vault

Boundary

Consul

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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:

• 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.
• 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 Mid-Level 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.
• Follow through on assigned tasks to build and ship medium-sized features, managing task expectations as needed.
• Engage in team discussions around diagnosis, planning, and workflow improvements based on product requirements.
• Apply independent judgment within team practices to determine appropriate actions and solutions.
• Address unforeseen challenges, making recommendations to keep tasks on track.
• Debug and resolve medium-level bugs in products or solutions to maintain quality.
• Review technical contributions for quality and consistency, collaborating with stakeholders to resolve issues and recommend technical or architectural changes.
• Suggest improvements to current processes and propose solutions to enhance the efficiency of architectural components and design.
• Participate in on-call rotations, pairing, and team planning to support product needs.

What you’ll need (basic qualifications)

• Typically, you should have at least five or more years of experience as an engineer.
• You have professional experience developing with modern programming languages and frameworks, and are interested in working in Golang specifically is a MUST.
• 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.
• Experience in reviewing & refactoring code & making suggestions that improve the codebase and product.
• Writing tests for more complex or edge cases.
• Demonstrated ability to build trust and foster relationships across teams and stakeholders, with a focus on valuing diverse perspectives and proficiently managing expectations.
• Cloud-native mindset and solid understanding of DevOps principles in a cloud environment.
• Emerging experience in mentoring team members, helping to enhance their problem-solving, critical thinking, and planning skills.
• Proven decision-making abilities with an intentional, data-driven approach to solving complex technical challenges and delivering results.
• Strong customer focus and systems-thinking mindset, with a commitment to personal accountability, self-awareness, and continuous improvement in support of 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.

Individual pay within the range will be determined based on job related-factors such as skills, experience, and education or training.

$151,300 — $178,000 USD

The base pay range for this role in Colorado (excluding Denver / Boulder Metro), Illinois, Minnesota, or Washington (excluding Seattle Metro) is:

$126,100 — $148,300 USD

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Life at HashiCorp

HashiCorp, an IBM company is driven by our people and our principles which have been the foundation of everything we do since the company was founded in 2012. Join us on our journey as we work to support the world's most innovative companies as they transition to cloud and multi-cloud infrastructure through simple yet powerful workflows and automation.

At HashiCorp, an IBM Company, we build the infrastructure that enables innovation. Our suite of multi-cloud infrastructure automation products are the underpinnings of the largest enterprises in the world, who rely on our solutions to provision, secure, connect, and run their critical applications to deliver crucial services, communications tools, and entertainment platforms to the world. We're building a once-in-a-generation infrastructure company with a unique approach rather than focusing on specific technologies, and we build products and solutions that support real-world workflows spanning the multiple cloud environments that nearly every organization worldwide is using today.

HashiCorp is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. We are committed to providing equal employment opportunities to qualified applicants and do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, pregnancy, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, national origin, age, marital status, genetic information, disability, protected veteran status or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local laws. We also consider qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records consistent with the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, the Los Angeles Fair Chance Ordinance, and other applicable state or local laws.

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