Senior Manager, Engineering

Summary

Join HashiCorp's Terraform Authorship team as a manager to lead and mentor a team of skilled software engineers. You will hire, guide, and support the growth of engineers, collaborating with product and design teams to prioritize and scope work. This role requires strong communication, technical understanding, and experience managing remote teams. You will lead large-scale projects, improve team sustainability, and foster a positive team culture. The ideal candidate possesses extensive software engineering and people management experience, a passion for innovation, and a commitment to operational reliability. HashiCorp offers a competitive salary and benefits package.

Requirements

• 4 years of software engineering people management experience
• 5 years of engineering experience
• Experience leading and managing remote distributed teams
• Strong communication skills (both written and verbal) for working across a large organization and building relationships with diverse peers and leadership
• A successful track record of facilitating the growth and learning of others
• Enough technical knowledge to take in highly complex, deeply technical concepts and relay them to stakeholders in a comprehensible way
• Experience navigating and managing projects spanning multiple codebases and organizations with separate ownership
• Passion for fostering a positive team culture and driving innovation while maintaining a strong focus on operational reliability
• Strong active listening skills, staying deeply curious to get to the real root of potential issues rather than superficial fixes
• Experience building and running high-performance, high-trust teams of safety and inclusion
• Clear track record of guiding teams to execute toward business outcomes, while maintaining sustainable delivery practices

Responsibilities

• Hire within the US and Canada to grow the team with kind, collaborative, and skilled engineers
• Lean on technical background to guide design and architecture conversations between engineers to a clear outcome
• Support the career growth and morale of a team of skilled software engineers at varying experience levels
• Provide team members and peers with clear, actionable, useful feedback
• Collaborate with Product and Design partners to prioritize and scope work, contribute to strategy, vision, and roadmap discussions, and facilitate internal and cross-team quarterly planning and estimation
• Lead efforts to triage, estimate, and plan work requests from a variety of sources
• Help teams navigate and maintain strong focus through times of rapid change
• Gather, synthesize, and process feedback in a way that results in improvements the team can see
• Build relationships with cross-functional peers across the organization to gather early feedback, generate buy-in, and drive adoption of your team’s work
• Implement practices that improve sustainability and resilience of the team and the products they build
• Lead impactful, large-scale projects that require partnership across multiple teams over multiple quarters to achieve clear business outcomes

Preferred Qualifications

• A Bachelor or higher degree in computer science, computer engineering, or related fields
• Terraform experience and/or knowledge
• Experience working on an enterprise SAAS or cloud platform
• Passion for delivering delightful user experiences and a background that includes frontend work
• A cover letter without AI assistance is highly preferred