Staff Engineer - Vault

Summary

Join the Vault Cloud Unification team at HashiCorp as a Staff Engineer to design, prototype, and implement critical functionality for a scalable, reliable, and secure product. You will work in a collaborative, remote-first environment, contributing to open-source projects and collaborating with various teams. The role involves leading large customer-facing projects, engaging with open-source contributors, and improving the Vault product line. You will also work with stakeholders to prioritize new features and enhancements. This position offers the opportunity to impact the productivity and lives of developers and improve the industry as a whole. The majority of the libraries are written in Golang.

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 Vault
• 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 Vault 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