Offer summary

Qualifications:

15+ years of professional software engineering experience., Proficiency in Go programming language., Experience with command-line API or programming language development., Interest or experience in learning Vault and working in source-available environments..

Key responsibilities:

Develop and support features across the Vault product line.

Lead large customer-facing projects and evaluate trade-offs.

Engage with open source contributors and promote community standards.

Collaborate with internal and external stakeholders to prioritize features.

Job description

About the team

We are looking for a Staff Engineer to join the Vault Cloud Unification team. You will help design, prototype, and implement critical functionality in order to deliver a scalable, highly reliable, and secure product.

We operate autonomously in a highly collaborative, remote-first environment. Anchored by kindness, communication, and humility, we provide the Vault Community and Vault Enterprise customers the ability to solve mission-critical problems securely.

With the support of your teammates, product management, manager, and developers across the organization you’ll grow your breadth and depth of knowledge to reach the next level in your career.

This person will be a part of the Vault engineering team at HashiCorp, working to provide a fantastic and broadly used secrets tool for businesses and individuals handling all sizes and types of infrastructure.

About the role

The majority of the libraries we maintain are written in Golang and are open source or source-available, receiving contributions from a large community of users. You will help review, fix, design, prototype, and implement features and tools while ensuring stability and usability. You will lead large customer-facing projects and interact regularly with collaborators on other teams to deliver multi-team engineering efforts. This is an opportunity to have an impact not just on the productivity and lives of developers, but on improving an industry as a whole.

What you’ll do (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

What you’ll need (basic qualifications)

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

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Individual pay within the range will be determined based on job related-factors such as skills, experience, and education or training.

The base pay range for this role in the SF Bay Area / NYC area is:

$246,200—$289,600 USD

The base pay range for this role in California (excluding SF Bay Area), New York (excluding NYC), Seattle Metro, Denver / Boulder Metro, Washington D.C., or Maryland is:

$225,600—$265,400 USD

The base pay range for this role in Colorado (excluding Denver / Boulder Metro), Illinois, Minnesota, or Washington (excluding Seattle Metro) is:

$205,100—$241,300 USD

“HashiCorp is an IBM subsidiary which has been acquired by IBM and will be integrated into the IBM organization. HashiCorp will be the hiring entity. By proceeding with this application you understand that HashiCorp will share your personal information with other IBM subsidiaries involved in your recruitment process, wherever these are located. More information on how IBM protects your personal information, including the safeguards in case of cross-border data transfer, are available here: link to IBM privacy statement.”

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