Sr. Engineer - Backend (Multiple Openings)

HashiCorp, Inc.; United States; Remote; USD 176,000 - 207,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a forward-thinking company as a Senior Engineer focused on backend development. You'll design and implement cutting-edge features for an innovative Infrastructure Cloud platform, collaborating closely with product teams and leading large-scale projects. This role is perfect for those passionate about modern programming and cloud solutions, offering a chance to make a significant impact in a dynamic environment. If you're ready to take your career to the next level and work with industry-leading technologies, this opportunity is for you!

Qualifications

• 6+ years of engineering experience with a focus on backend development.
• Experience with distributed systems and cloud environments.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement features ensuring stability and usability.
• Lead large-scale projects and mentor junior engineers.

Skills

Golang

Ruby

Cloud-native mindset

Critical thinking

Stakeholder management

Tools

AWS

Azure

GCP

HashiCorp products

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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 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 on-call rotation.
• Strive for quality through maintainable code and comprehensive testing from development to deployment.

What you’ll need (basic qualifications)

• Typically, you should have at least six 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 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.

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

$176,000 — $207,000 USD.

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

$146,600 — $172,500 USD.

Life at HashiCorp

HashiCorp 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, 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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