Senior Engineer II

Summary

Join HashiCorp's Foundations Engineering team as a Sr. Software Engineer and contribute to the reliability and performance of 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 100% remote role requires experience building distributed systems and a strong understanding of service security. The ideal candidate will have a principled approach to problem-solving and collaboration. HashiCorp offers competitive compensation and a diverse, inclusive work environment.

Requirements

• 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

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

• 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
• 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