Senior Site Reliability Engineer

Summary

Join HashiCorp's DBRE team as a backend software engineer and contribute to the reliability of our databases across cloud products. This growing team requires collaboration, a product-focused mindset, and agile iteration. You will be responsible for operational excellence, delivering user-focused solutions, leading technical discussions, and building relationships within the engineering and SRE teams. This individual contributor role demands 5+ years of backend software development experience in cloud environments, relational database expertise (especially Postgres), and experience operationalizing complex software at scale. The role also requires experience in customer-centric and agile organizations, working with SaaS offerings, and expertise in major public clouds.

Requirements

• 5+ years of professional backend software development experience in cloud environments
• Experienced in working closely with relational databases, Postgres in particular
• Enjoy working on a variety of scopes spanning software engineering, operations, and DBRE
• Worked to operationalize complex software at scale
• Worked on infrastructure teams in customer-centric and agile organizations with empathy and compassion
• Worked with SaaS or another type of managed software offering
• Expertise in one or more of the major public clouds
• Work well in a high trust environment
• Enjoys learning as part of a highly collaborative team

Responsibilities

• Be responsible for and drive operational excellence with databases
• Deliver elegant, user-focused solutions that address reliability challenges for databases
• Lead engineers in technical discussions supporting their development goals while guiding them using database best practices
• Build technical skills and relationships within a team of engineers and SREs