Manager, Engineering - Core Data

Summary

Join HashiCorp's Core Data team as a Manager to lead a team developing standardized, automated, and well-governed data solutions. You will work with senior leadership to develop roadmaps, support team growth, collaborate with Product and Design, ensure projects are broken down into achievable milestones, and improve team processes. The role requires managing incoming work requests, providing escalation support, and growing the team. Success requires strong communication, experience with distributed systems, and the ability to explain complex technical concepts to stakeholders. HashiCorp offers a fully remote work environment and opportunities for growth and development.

Requirements

• A college or university degree in Computer Science or equivalent
• 3+ years of software engineering management experience
• 3+ years engineering experience working on the following: Creating and maintaining platform services, Creating smart data, Backend applications, Pub/Sub systems, Observability, Services written in Go
• Strong communication skills, including written communication, is required as HashiCorp is a fully remote company with a lot of asynchronous collaboration
• A successful background partnering with PM
• The ability to take in highly complex, deeply technical distributed systems concepts and relay them to stakeholders in a comprehensible way
• Experience breaking down large projects into small milestones
• Phenomenal communication skills for working across the organization, capable of building strong relationships with peers and leadership
• The ability to navigate ambiguity while remaining empathetic and kind

Responsibilities

• Work with senior leadership to develop a roadmap which supports the organization’s goals
• 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
• Provide escalation support for oncall/customer incidents
• Continue to grow the team with kind, collaborative, and skilled engineers

Preferred Qualifications

• A background in leading engineering teams for large-scale enterprise platforms
• Experience building, scaling and debugging distributed, highly available systems
• Interest to take on new challenges and are driven to deliver the highest quality solution for our customers
• A passion for continuous improvement and learning