Manager, Engineering

Summary

Join the Vault team as an engineering manager to support the team building the original self-managed version of Vault, focusing on people management with limited hands-on coding opportunities.

Requirements

• 2 years of software engineering management experience
• Strong communication skills, including written communication is required as HashiCorp is a fully remote company with a lot of asynchronous collaboration
• A successful track record of facilitating the growth and learning of others
• Enough technical knowledge to take in highly complex, deeply technical distributed systems concepts and relay them to stakeholders in a comprehensible way
• Has experience writing software tests and breaking down large projects into small milestones

Responsibilities

• Support the career growth and morale of a team of skilled software engineers at varying skill levels, through setting goals, mentoring, and providing feedback
• Collaborate with Product and Design counterparts to scope and assess feasibility of initiatives
• Ensure larger efforts are broken down into achievable milestones
• Effectively triage incoming work requests from a variety of internal and external sources, ensuring the work most aligned with the team’s objectives is handled
• Improve processes to boost the team's productivity and reduce regressions in each Vault release
• Provide occasional on-call coordination support for customer incidents
• Continue to grow the team with kind, collaborative, and skilled engineers

Preferred Qualifications

• A cover letter without AI assistance is highly preferred
• Experience with security, infrastructure, and/or secrets management tooling, to understand the needs of our users
• Experience working with large codebases for distributed systems
• Experience improving the user experience of a complex system
• Experience in the B2B enterprise software space
• Experience working in and improving a legacy codebase
• Eastern Time Zone location is highly preferred to support team members in Europe