Senior Platform Engineer

Summary

Join the HashiCorp Productivity Systems & Services (PSS) team as a Sr. Software Engineer and play a key role in driving high-impact initiatives. You will collaborate with skilled engineers, tackle complex technical challenges, develop innovative tools and abstractions, and shape the next generation of our platform. Within the first six months, you will learn HashiCorp's products and processes, become a trusted team member, and contribute to improving internal systems. Responsibilities include building, deploying, and supporting new platform components, developing a mature monitoring and alerting methodology, and providing occasional after-hours support. The role requires experience with infrastructure as code, configuration management tools, cloud platforms, Git, Golang, and monitoring/alerting. Preferred qualifications include previous platform engineering experience and familiarity with HashiCorp tools.

Requirements

• You are comfortable and enthusiastic about adopting the HashiCorp way of building systems using an infrastructure as code approach and taking advantage of immutable infrastructure
• You have hands-on experience with configuration management tools such as Ansible, Chef, Puppet, or Salt to manage Linux and/or Windows hosts. A thoughtful understanding about when and how to use them and the tradeoffs incurred
• You have experience operating AWS, Azure or Google Cloud including access control (IAM) and some network topology design
• You have experience using source management tools like Git
• You have experience with and are comfortable with programming languages, particularly Golang
• You have experience with monitoring and alerting as a means of proactively increasing uptime and reliability
• You have a willingness to learn new technologies and methodologies
• You understand the difference between shipping a project that’s done versus a project that is perfect
• You have a customer-centric attitude and willingness to enthusiastically support the engineering teams to help HashiCorp continue to deliver great products and services

Responsibilities

• Learn about HashiCorp’s products, teams, peers, and processes
• Ship your first infrastructure project using HashiCorp tooling like Packer, Terraform, Nomad, and Consul
• Have one on ones with every member of our team and members of other teams
• Experience the HashiCorp culture and get familiar with the Tao of HashiCorp
• Become a trusted member of the PSS team and a subject matter expert on the systems we build and support
• Take an active role in recommending and designing internal systems to support product, engineering, and security teams
• Recommend improvements to the systems the team builds and supports
• Drive the research and testing of systems to help meet the needs of our Engineering teams, including writing RFCs to show what thoughts and considerations went into the selection of the system
• Build, deploy, and support new platform components
• Help develop a mature monitoring and alerting methodology for our systems
• Provide occasional after-hours support for our tools in the event of an outage

Preferred Qualifications

Previous platform engineering experience building internal tooling

Benefits

• $176,500 — $207,600 USD (SF Bay Area / NYC area)
• $161,800 — $190,300 USD (California (excluding SF Bay Area), New York (excluding NYC), Seattle Metro, Denver / Boulder Metro, Washington D.C., or Maryland)
• $147,100 — $173,000 USD (Colorado (excluding Denver / Boulder Metro), Illinois, Minnesota, or Washington (excluding Seattle Metro))