Senior Engineer

Summary

Join HashiCorp's Vault Cloud Unification team as an experienced backend engineer. You will design, prototype, and implement critical functionality for a scalable, reliable, and secure product. Collaborate with a remote-first team, mentor other developers, and contribute to the open-source community. Lead the creation of multi-phase features, maintain build pipelines, and negotiate with stakeholders. Maintain high quality and security standards, participate in on-call rotation, and interview candidates. This role offers the opportunity to grow your skills and contribute to a widely used secrets management tool.

Requirements

• Experience and facility with Go or a similar programming language
• Experience writing automated unit, integration, and functional tests
• Source code control best practices using Github or other similar tools
• Communicate clearly while remaining empathetic and kind
• Have an eagerness to learn through humility and reflection
• A willingness to advocate for clean code, refactoring when needed, and understanding tradeoffs

Responsibilities

• Lead the creation of multi-phase features, including design, breakdowns, implementation, testing, and maintenance
• Maintain and support our continuous integration and build pipelines, helping to ideate and implement improvements
• Negotiate with stakeholders for prioritization and planning for releases and sprints
• Mentor other developers across the team and the organization, reviewing pull requests for Vault and Vault Enterprise, architecture, and designs
• Participate in cross-team working groups as a subject matter expert
• Help the open source community with our Vault Community Edition sustaining rotation, reviewing the community’s pull requests and feature requests, and addressing issues
• Give demos of new features and workflows
• Maintain a very high standard for quality and security, and keep Vault customers’ trust
• Participate in our on-call rotation to assist HashiCorp support
• Interview candidates and provide detailed feedback to hiring committees

Preferred Qualifications

• Understanding of best practices in secrets management
• Experience with authentication and authorization workflows
• Comfortable working in Linux shells
• Experience designing user-friendly API & CLI interfaces
• Familiarity with Vault, and other Hashicorp products (such as Terraform or Boundary)
• Experience selling products to enterprise customers