Director, Engineering

Summary

Join HashiCorp's Terraform Authorship team as an Engineering Manager and help shape the future of Terraform! You will lead and grow a team of engineers, supporting their career development and fostering a positive team culture. Responsibilities include hiring, providing feedback, collaborating with cross-functional teams, and leading large-scale projects. This role requires extensive experience in software engineering management, leading remote teams, and navigating complex technical projects. Preferred qualifications include a computer science degree and Terraform experience. HashiCorp offers competitive compensation and benefits, with pay ranges varying by location.

Requirements

• 6 years of software engineering people management experience
• 2 years of experience managing managers
• 8 years of engineering experience
• Experience leading and managing remote distributed teams
• Strong communication skills (both written and verbal) for working across a large organization and building relationships with diverse peers and leadership
• A successful track record of facilitating the growth and learning of others
• Enough technical knowledge to take in highly complex, deeply technical concepts and relay them to stakeholders in a comprehensible way
• 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
• Strong active listening skills, staying deeply curious to get to the real root of potential issues rather than superficial fixes
• Experience building and running high-performance, high-trust teams of safety and inclusion
• Clear track record of guiding teams to execute toward business outcomes, while maintaining sustainable delivery practices

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

• A Bachelor or higher degree in computer science, computer engineering, or related fields
• Terraform experience and/or knowledge
• Experience working on an enterprise SAAS or cloud platform
• Passion for delivering delightful user experiences and a background that includes frontend work
• A cover letter without AI assistance is highly preferred

Benefits

• $263,500 — $310,000 USD (SF Bay Area / NYC)
• $241,500 — $284,100 USD (California (excluding SF Bay Area), New York (excluding NYC), Seattle Metro, Denver / Boulder Metro, Washington D.C., or Maryland)
• $219,600 — $258,300 USD (Colorado (excluding Denver / Boulder Metro), Illinois, Minnesota, or Washington (excluding Seattle Metro))