Senior Engineer

Summary

Join HashiCorp's Foundations Engineering team as a Sr. Software Engineer and contribute to the core foundational services powering the HCP Terraform hosted service. You will develop and maintain backend services, improve the product using Ruby on Rails and Golang, investigate performance issues, and mentor teammates. This role requires experience building distributed systems and a principled approach to service security. The position offers a 100% remote work opportunity and a competitive salary. HashiCorp is committed to a diverse team and welcomes all qualified candidates.

Requirements

• Have 5+ years of production experience working on any of the following
• Backend applications (e.g., Ruby on Rails)
• Databases (e.g., Postgres, Redis)
• Services written in Go

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain the backend services on which HCP Terraform relies
• Continuously improve the product by writing code in systems written in Ruby on Rails and Golang
• Investigate problems, performance bottlenecks, and orchestration issues which span multiple services
• Enable your teammates through technical mentorship, code reviews, and pairing
• Participate in a 24/7 on-call rotation that supports our production services

Preferred Qualifications

• Strive for quality through maintainable code and comprehensive testing from development to deployment
• Experience building and scaling distributed, highly available systems
• Communicate clearly while remaining empathetic and kind
• Have an eagerness to learn through humility and reflection
• Have experience debugging performance bottlenecks for live services and systems
• Are familiar with best practices for application and infrastructure security

Benefits

100% remote work