Senior Software Developer

HashiCorp; Richland (WA); On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

HashiCorp in Richland, WA seeks a Senior Developer for Terraform in CPE to design and build automation systems that improve cloud operations, security, and reliability. You will lead automation initiatives across AWS EKS, Vault, and Nomad, delivering scalable platform solutions for global customers.

You will drive end-to-end improvements, mentor engineers, author RFCs, and participate in on-call rotations to maintain SLA ≥ 99.95% while advancing product quality and operational efficiency.

Qualifications

• Experience designing automation frameworks for cloud platforms.
• Strong background in container orchestration and scalable systems.
• Proven ability to reduce toil through self-healing and automation.

Responsibilities

• Design Automation Solutions: build scripts and IaC for AWS EKS, Vault, and platform deployments.
• Build Automated Systems: create cellular infrastructure models for scalable enterprise workspaces.
• Improve Automation Strategies: refine automation to reduce on-call toil by 30% and improve recovery.

Skills

Terraform

AWS EKS

SRE Practices

Automation

Tools

Vault

Nomad

IaC

Job description

As a Senior Developer for Terraform in CPE, you will design and build systems and tools that automate repetitive cloud operations and scaling processes to increase platform efficiency, security, and reliability. You will develop innovative platform solutions—including cells-parallelization and AWS EKS container orchestration—to drive business outcomes and deliver exceptional, highly resilient end-to-end product experiences for our global customers. Your primary responsibilities will include:

• Design Automation Solutions: Develop scripts, programs, and finfrastructure-as-code frameworks for automating container orchestration (AWS EKS), secrets management (Vault), and platform deployments, focusing on increasing efficiency, reliability, and security.
• Build Automated Systems: Create automated cellular infrastructure partitioning models based on business scaling requirements, ensuring seamless, isolated workspace execution for enterprise customers.
• Improve Automation Strategies (Automation 2.0): Continuously assess and refine platform automation strategies—implementing self-healing alert loops and automated recovery—to reduce manual on-call toil by 30% and optimize technical solutions.
• Deliver End-to-End Experiences: Care equally about business outcomes and technical solutions, focusing on migrating legacy Nomad workloads onto AWS EKS clusters without any customer interruption.
• Drive Business Outcomes: Lead the weekly CPE SRE on-call rotation, author RFCs, mentor 1-2 engineers, and conduct quality code reviews to improve platform availability (SLA ≥ 99.95%) and overall product quality.