Director, Engineering - Terraform Actions

Summary

Join HashiCorp's Terraform Authorship team as an Engineering Manager and help shape the future of Terraform! Lead and grow a team of engineers, supporting their career development and fostering a positive team culture. Collaborate with cross-functional teams, prioritizing and scoping work, and contributing to strategic planning. Navigate complex projects, manage multiple codebases, and drive innovation while maintaining operational reliability. This role requires strong communication, leadership, and people management skills. The ideal candidate will have extensive experience in software engineering and managing remote teams.

Requirements

• 4 years of software engineering people management experience
• 6 years of engineering experience
• Experience maintaining a sprawling legacy code base
• Must be located in the Eastern Time Zone
• Experience leading and managing remote distributed teams
• Strong communication skills with a successful track record of working cross-functionally to deliver strategic initiatives
• Experience navigating and managing projects spanning multiple codebases and organizations with separate ownership
• Passion for fostering a positive team culture and driving innovation while maintaining a strong focus on operational reliability

Responsibilities

• Hire within the US and Canada to grow the team with kind, collaborative, and skilled engineers
• Lean on your deep experience leading groups of teams toward a clear shared outcome
• Support the career growth and morale of a team of Engineering Managers at varying experience levels
• Provide team members and peers with clear, actionable, useful feedback
• Collaborate with Product and Design partners to prioritize and scope work, contribute to strategy, vision, and roadmap discussions, and facilitate internal and cross-team quarterly planning and estimation
• Lead efforts to triage, estimate, and plan work requests from a variety of sources
• Help teams navigate and maintain strong focus through times of rapid change
• Gather, synthesize, and process feedback in a way that results in improvements the team can see
• Build relationships with cross-functional peers across the organization to gather early feedback, generate buy-in, and drive adoption of your team’s work
• Implement practices that improve sustainability and resilience of the team and the products they build
• Lead impactful, large-scale projects that require partnership across multiple teams over multiple quarters to achieve clear business outcomes

Preferred Qualifications

• Terraform experience and/or knowledge
• Experience building developer tools for command line interfaces
• A cover letter without AI assistance is highly preferred