Senior Software Engineer II - Infrastructure Transformation

Summary

Join HashiCorp's Infrastructure Transformation team as a Sr. Software Engineer and play a key role in enhancing operational excellence. You will perform hands-on coding, deployment, and collaborate with engineering teams to align infrastructure solutions with business needs. Lead multiple projects focusing on key initiatives, abstractions, and performance optimization. Design, develop, and implement effective solutions while mentoring other engineers through documentation and knowledge transfer. Advocate for improvements in infrastructure automation and efficiency, adapting to new technologies as needed. This role requires strong backend software development experience in cloud environments, experience with microservices, and proficiency in infrastructure management. HashiCorp offers a competitive salary and benefits package.

Requirements

• Professional backend software development experience in cloud environments
• Experience operating AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud infrastructure
• Comfortable with microservices architectures, and have experience with microservices in active development and operation, at a global scale
• Proficient in infrastructure management and operations lifecycle concepts
• Experience building and supporting the production infrastructure for a large-scale SaaS application
• Strong understanding of platform engineering
• Exhibit exceptional problem-solving abilities with a proactive and analytical approach to identifying and resolving infrastructure issues
• Enthusiastic about adopting the HashiCorp way of building systems, using an infrastructure-as-code (IaC) approach, and taking advantage of immutable infrastructure
• Experience using source management tools like Git
• Willing and eager to learn new technologies and methodologies
• Expert collaborator and are able to effectively communicate across diverse teams and partners
• Have a customer-centric attitude and willingness to enthusiastically support the engineering teams to help HashiCorp continue to deliver great products and services

Responsibilities

• Perform hands-on coding, configurations, and deployment of tools and services to improve infrastructure delivery, performance and scalability
• Work cross-functionally with Internal Platform Engineering teams to align infrastructure solutions with technical and business requirements
• Lead and contribute to multiple concurrent projects, focusing on key business initiatives, abstractions, migrations, and performance optimization
• Design, develop, and implement effective solutions which benefit the entire platform and align with business objectives
• Mentor and enable other software engineers through the creation of detailed documentation and runbooks, by promoting synchronous coding activities, and delivering knowledge transfer sessions across the team
• Advocate for ongoing improvements across the infrastructure platform, seeking opportunities for automation and operational efficiency at scale
• Leverage technical program management expertise, defining technical objectives, leading capacity planning activities, coordinating engineering tasks, and managing expectations to reliably deliver program success
• Regularly adapt to new platforms, technologies, and areas of focus as objectives are realized and new initiatives begin

Preferred Qualifications

• Excellent project management fundamentals and a demonstrable proficiency in navigating through project phases and activities effectively
• Hands-on experience with AWS services such as EC2, S3, RDS and ECS in a professional setting
• A passion for automation, optimization, reliability, and operational maturity
• Proficient in container orchestration (e.g., Nomad, Kubernetes), infrastructure-as-code tools (e.g., Terraform, Ansible), and other HashiCorp products (e.g., Packer, Consul, Vault)
• Experienced in working across a distributed team, able to consistently deliver quality results when given a high level of independence and autonomy

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))