Senior Engineer - Vault Cloud

Summary

Join our Vault team as a Senior Software Engineer and significantly contribute to the quality of our enterprise security product. You will design innovative testing frameworks, develop automation tools, and foster a strong quality culture. Leverage your expertise to address the challenges of securing enterprise data, ensuring solution robustness and resilience. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver top-tier software. This individual contributor role offers opportunities to enhance testing effectiveness, contribute to quality strategies, and mentor other engineers. You will work with Go and Terraform, focusing on automation and large-scale performance testing.

Requirements

• 5+ years in software engineering, with a focus on quality, and proficiency in test automation frameworks
• A solid understanding of integration and performance testing
• Solid hands on coding and development experience with Go (Required)
• Comfortability with hands on programming in an object oriented programming language
• Experience with writing unit and integration tests in Bash, Go, and JavaScript
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines and integrating automated testing
• Familiarity with infrastructure management tools (experience with Vault is a plus!)
• Strong knowledge of networking and distributed systems
• A passion for automation, testing, and documentation
• Strong knowledge of observability tools such as Datadog and Grafana

Responsibilities

• Contribute to the design and development of Go/Terraform-based automation frameworks, assisting in the creation of tools and utilities to enhance overall testing effectiveness
• Collaborate with engineering teams to incorporate testing frameworks into the build process, focusing on operational effectiveness
• Assist in the creation and maintenance of systems for performance testing Vault at large scale and in complex deployment topologies
• Advocate for a culture of testing across the organization, assisting Software Engineers in identifying and capitalizing on testing opportunities throughout the development process
• Participate in defining and monitoring quality metrics and risk assessment for releases, contributing to ensuring superior product quality
• Develop and execute detailed test plans, designs, and cases, ensuring robust coverage for feature, integration, regression, and system-level testing
• Mainly program in Go, contributing to a team committed to continuous skill improvement
• Provide guidance to the technical leadership and strategic direction for the continuous improvement of the Vault Quality Engineering Team
• Mentor other quality engineers, nurturing a culture of high-quality work and continuous learning
• Collaborate with customer-facing teams (like PMs, UX, SEs) to better understand customer usage of our product and drive quality improvements
• Assist in designing, building, and maintaining automation that provisions infrastructure at scale and detects issues proactively
• Contribute to the development of long-term quality strategies and help shape quality standards, guidelines, and processes at the organizational level
• Execute prioritized test cases in cloud-based automated environments that mimic customer networking topologies and workloads
• Work with engineering to replicate and address customer-reported issues
• Participate in measuring and quantifying improvements in the quality of delivered software

Preferred Qualifications

Experience with Vault