Sr. Site Reliability Engineer - DBRE

HashiCorp, Inc.; United States; Remote; USD 147,000 - 208,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a dynamic and innovative engineering team focused on enhancing database reliability across cloud products. This role emphasizes collaboration, operational excellence, and the application of software engineering practices to improve database usage. As a key contributor, you'll engage with various engineering teams, driving solutions that prioritize user experience and reliability. If you thrive in agile environments and are passionate about making impactful contributions, this opportunity is perfect for you. Be part of a forward-thinking organization that values innovation and teamwork, as you help shape the future of cloud infrastructure.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of backend software development experience in cloud environments.
• Expertise in relational databases, specifically Postgres.

Responsibilities

• Drive operational excellence with databases and deliver user-focused solutions.
• Lead technical discussions and guide engineers using best practices.

Skills

Backend Software Development

Database Management

Agile Methodologies

Cloud Environments

Relational Databases (Postgres)

Collaboration

Empathy in Engineering

Job description

The HashiCorp DBRE team is responsible for maintaining and improving the reliability of HashiCorp’s databases across our cloud products, using a software-engineering-based approach (as is typical of SRE teams here). Our focus is on making it easy for teams to use databases safely. This team will involve a mixture of database engineering, product engineering practices and SRE-like engagement with cloud engineering teams.

About the role

This engineering role is on a nascent, growing engineering team. The team is responsible for products that touch many areas of engineering organizations at HashiCorp, so applicants will need to thrive in collaborative environments, have product-focused mindsets, and be comfortable iterating in an agile manner towards solutions. This is an individual contributor role.

What you’ll do (responsibilities)

1. Be responsible for and drive operational excellence with databases.
2. Deliver elegant, user-focused solutions that address reliability challenges for databases.
3. Lead engineers in technical discussions supporting their development goals while guiding them using database best practices.
4. Build technical skills and relationships within a team of engineers and SREs.

What you’ll need (basic qualifications)

1. 5+ years of professional backend software development experience in cloud environments.
2. Experienced in working closely with relational databases (Postgres required).
3. Experience and comfortability programming in modern programming languages.
4. Enjoy working on a variety of scopes spanning software engineering, operations, and DBRE.
5. Worked to operationalize complex software at scale.
6. Worked on infrastructure teams in customer-centric and agile organizations with empathy and compassion.
7. Worked with SaaS or another type of managed software offering.
8. Expertise in one or more of the major public clouds.
9. Work well in a high trust environment.
10. Enjoys learning as part of a highly collaborative team.

What is our hiring process like?

1. Introductory Call with a Recruiter (30 min via Zoom).
2. Interview with an Engineering Manager (60 min via Zoom).
3. Interview Loop with additional team members, with the following panel (60 min each via Zoom):
4. Systems and Architecture Interview.
5. Operational Aptitude Interview.
6. Offer.

We do our best to accommodate your programming language of choice for technical interviews.

Compensation

The base pay range for this role in the SF Bay Area / NYC area is: $176,500 — $207,600 USD.

The base pay range for this role in California (excluding SF Bay Area), New York (excluding NYC), Seattle Metro, Denver / Boulder Metro, Washington D.C., or Maryland is: $161,800 — $190,300 USD.

The base pay range for this role in Colorado (excluding Denver / Boulder Metro), Illinois, Minnesota, or Washington (excluding Seattle Metro) is: $147,100 — $173,000 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.

HashiCorp is committed to providing reasonable accommodations to qualified individuals with disabilities in our job application procedures. If you need assistance or an accommodation due to a disability, please reach out to [e-mail].