Staff Engineer - Backend

Summary

Join HashiCorp's Terraform Authorship team, a center of innovation driving improvements in Infrastructure as Code. You will contribute to the development and maintenance of Golang-based open-source libraries, collaborating with a large community. Responsibilities include developing and supporting Terraform features, leading customer-facing projects, writing RFCs, engaging open-source contributors, and prioritizing new features. This role requires extensive software engineering experience, Go development expertise, and experience with command-line APIs. The position offers the opportunity to significantly impact developer productivity and the industry as a whole.

Requirements

• You have 15+ years of professional software engineering experience
• You have professional experience developing with Go
• You have experience with command-line API and/or programming language development
• You have experience or interest in learning Terraform and Terraform internals
• You have experience or are interested in working in a source-available development environment
• You have experience navigating daunting large and complex codebases
• You have experience leading software development projects from conception to delivery
• You enjoy working collaboratively on a fully-remote team
• You have strong written communication skills, and you understand how to use tools like code review to asynchronously unblock and level up your peers

Responsibilities

• Develop, advocate for, and support new and existing features in the entire Terraform product line
• Own large customer-facing projects, judiciously evaluate trade offs and remove project blockers
• Spend time writing about customer problems, potential solutions, and more in the form of RFCs (Requests For Comments)
• Engage open source contributors, promote healthy community engagement, and establish standards for effectively working in the open
• Empathize with the end user and be their voice when influencing priorities and technical decisions
• Participate in cross-team working groups while developing your knowledge as a subject matter expert
• Enable your teammates through technical contributions, code reviews, and pairing
• Work with internal and external stakeholders to determine and prioritize new features and enhancements critical to the success of HashiCorp customers and the broader community