Principal Engineer - HashiCorp Core Data

IBM; Lowell (MA); On-site; USD 130,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading technology company is looking for a Principal Engineer for their HashiCorp Core Data team in Lowell, MA. The role requires over 15 years of experience in software engineering, involving driving engineering excellence and innovation. As a Principal Engineer, you will lead complex projects, provide technical guidance, and shape the technical direction for new solutions. Strong programming skills, particularly in Golang, are essential, along with leadership abilities and a passion for mentoring others. This full-time role offers opportunities to influence and drive significant technical strategies.

Qualifications

• 15+ years of progressive experience in software engineering.
• Minimum of 3 years in a Principal Engineer or similar role.
• Proven ability to lead complex, business-critical projects.

Responsibilities

• Drive engineering excellence and best practices across the organization.
• Apply advanced software engineering expertise to guide complex projects.
• Shape technical direction on key technologies and architectural patterns.

Skills

Software Engineering

Programming (Golang)

Technical Leadership

Collaboration

Innovation

Education

Bachelor's Degree

Tools

HashiCorp products

Job description

Principal Engineer - HashiCorp Core Data

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A career in IBM Software means you'll be part of a team that transforms our customer's challenges into industry-leading solutions. We are an infinitely curious team, always seeking new possibilities, and dedicated to creating the world's leading AI-powered, cloud-native software solutions. Our renowned legacy creates endless global opportunities for our network of IBMers. We are a team of deep product experts, ensuring exceptional client experiences, with a focus on delivery, excellence, and obsession over customer outcomes. This position involves contributing to HashiCorp's offerings, now part of IBM, which empower organizations to automate and secure multi-cloud and hybrid environments. You will join a team managing the lifecycle of infrastructure and security, enhancing IBM's cloud solutions to ensure enterprises achieve efficiency, security, and scalability in their cloud journey.

Your Role And Responsibilities

• Drive Engineering and Operational Excellence: Set the standard for engineering excellence, driving best practices, architecture review processes, and operational maturity across the organization.
• Strategic Technical Influence: Apply deep knowledge of the business and advanced software engineering expertise to guide and influence the most challenging projects that are transformational, complex, high-risk, or technically demanding.
• Thought Leadership and Innovation: Anticipate, identify, and execute on innovative and visionary concepts for IBM/HashiCorp products and practices that drive the product roadmap, solve complex industry issues, and aim for game-changing market leadership.
• Architectural Stewardship: Shape the organization's technical direction on key technologies, architectural patterns, and client solutions, particularly in areas like reliable data lifecycle, secure orchestration, and the intelligent control plane.
• Technical Force Multiplier: Act as a critical force multiplier by actively mentoring senior engineers, delegating high-leverage work, and building a sustainable, strong peer technical network to scale organizational impact.

Preferred Education

Bachelor's Degree

Required Technical And Professional Expertise

• 15+ years of progressive experience in software engineering, including a minimum of 3 years operating in a Principal Engineer, Distinguished Engineer, or Senior Staff Engineer capacity with demonstrated influence spanning multiple teams, product lines, or organizations.
• Deep Technical Leadership: Proven ability to serve as the Technical Lead for challenging, business-critical, and highly complex projects, leading winning cross-functional teams to deliver strategic technical solutions with clarity and conviction.
• Programming Expertise: Professional experience developing with modern programming languages and frameworks, and are interested in working in Golang. Experience in distributed systems, high-scale services, and/or data infrastructure is highly valued.
• Strategic Vision: Demonstrated experience crafting and successfully driving a multi-year technical strategy and vision that aligns with product goals and anticipates future industry needs.

Preferred Technical And Professional Experience

• Are a technical leader capable of crafting long-term strategy and vision.
• Possess strong written communication skills and thrive in an all-remote, document-based culture, leveraging both asynchronous and synchronous collaboration to effectively partner with, unblock, and guide your peers.
• Are an effective communicator, collaborator, and influencer with engineering, product and design teams.
• Are able to identify pragmatic and ideal solutions blending customer feedback with technical foresight.
• Have experience using HashiCorp products.
• Navigate ambiguity while remaining empathetic and kind.
• Eagerly take on new challenges and are driven to deliver the highest quality solution.
• Desire for continuous self-improvement and a passion for mentoring others.
• You’ve reviewed our principles and they resonate with your professional values.

Seniority level

Mid-Senior level

Employment type

Full-time

Job function

Engineering and Information Technology

Industries

IT Services and IT Consulting