Platform Engineer II

Summary

Join HashiCorp's Productivity Systems & Services (PSS) team as a mid-level Platform Engineer! You will support product teams in delivering high-quality software by building and maintaining critical systems. Within the first six months, you'll learn HashiCorp's products and processes, contribute to infrastructure projects using HashiCorp tools, become a subject matter expert, and actively participate in system improvement and development. This role requires hands-on experience with configuration management, cloud platforms, source control, programming, and monitoring. A customer-centric attitude and a willingness to learn are essential. Previous platform engineering experience is a plus.

Requirements

• You are comfortable and enthusiastic about adopting the HashiCorp way of building systems using an infrastructure as code approach and taking advantage of immutable infrastructure
• You have hands-on experience with configuration management tools such as Ansible, Chef, Puppet, or Salt to manage Linux and/or Windows hosts. A thoughtful understanding about when and how to use them and the tradeoffs incurred
• You have experience operating AWS, Azure or Google Cloud including access control (IAM) and some network topology design
• You have experience using source management tools like Git
• You have experience with and are comfortable with programming languages, particularly Golang
• You have experience with monitoring and alerting as a means of proactively increasing uptime and reliability
• You have a willingness to learn new technologies and methodologies
• You understand the difference between shipping a project that’s done versus a project that is perfect
• You have a customer-centric attitude and willingness to enthusiastically support the engineering teams to help HashiCorp continue to deliver great products and services

Responsibilities

• Learn about HashiCorp’s products, teams, peers, and processes
• Ship your first infrastructure project using HashiCorp tooling like Packer, Terraform, Nomad, and Consul
• Have one on ones with every member of our team and members of other teams
• Experience the HashiCorp culture and get familiar with the Tao of HashiCorp
• Become a trusted member of the PSS team and a subject matter expert on the systems we build and support
• Take an active role in recommending and designing internal systems to support product, engineering, and security teams
• Recommend improvements to the systems the team builds and supports
• Drive the research and testing of systems to help meet the needs of our Engineering teams, including writing RFCs to show what thoughts and considerations went into the selection of the system
• Build, deploy, and support new platform components
• Help develop a mature monitoring and alerting methodology for our systems
• Provide occasional after-hours support for our tools in the event of an outage

Preferred Qualifications

Previous platform engineering experience building internal tooling

Benefits

• $151,300 — $178,000 USD (SF Bay Area / NYC area)
• $138,600 — $163,100 USD (California (excluding SF Bay Area), New York (excluding NYC), Seattle Metro, Denver / Boulder Metro, Washington D.C., or Maryland)
• $126,100 — $148,300 USD (Colorado (excluding Denver / Boulder Metro), Illinois, Minnesota, or Washington (excluding Seattle Metro))