HashiCorp is hiring a
Senior Engineer II - Backend

Summary

Join our team as a Senior Software Engineer II to lead the Software Engineering portion and develop core services written in Golang. You will work with infrastructure teams, establish best practices, investigate problems, and participate in on-call rotations.

Requirements

• Experience building and scaling distributed, highly-available systems
• Informed opinions from experience about service ownership best practices, incident response and resolution, and platform resiliency
• Solid knowledge with one systems language, and ability to code in several more (our foundational services are written in Go and we also have a Rails monolith)
• Experience debugging performance bottlenecks for live services and systems
• Familiarity with best practices for application and infrastructure security
• Strong communication and leadership skills

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain the Platform Engineering core services written in Golang
• Work with the infrastructure team to define the next-generation architecture of the HCP Terraform platform
• Establish and foster best practices around service security and performance
• Investigate problems, performance bottlenecks, and orchestration issues which span multiple services
• Strive for quality through maintainable code and comprehensive testing from development to deployment
• 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
• Participate in a 24/7 on-call rotation that supports our production services
• Provide technical leadership to teammates through coaching and mentorship
• Be responsible for technical deliverables, development timelines, and ensuring software architecture is aligned with the business and customer needs
• Planning project scope and direction aligning with business and customer needs
• Conduct code reviews and monitoring compliance with coding standards