Job Details

Introduction

A career in IBM Software means you'll be part of a team that transforms our customer's challenges into industry-leading solutions. We are an infinitely curious team, always seeking new possibilities, and dedicated to creating the world's leading AI-powered, cloud-native software solutions. Our renowned legacy creates endless global opportunities for our network of IBMers. We are a team of deep product experts, ensuring exceptional client experiences, with a focus on delivery, excellence, and obsession over customer outcomes. This position involves contributing to HashiCorp's offerings, now part of IBM, which empower organizations to automate and secure multi-cloud and hybrid environments. You will join a team managing the lifecycle of infrastructure and security, enhancing IBM's cloud solutions to ensure enterprises achieve efficiency, security, and scalability in their cloud journey.

Your role and responsibilities

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

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Required technical and professional expertise

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

Preferred technical and professional experience

Familiarity with both HashiCorp and IBM products and services.

IBM is committed to creating a diverse environment and is proud to be an equal-opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, caste, genetics, pregnancy, disability, neurodivergence, age, veteran status, or other characteristics. IBM is also committed to compliance with all fair employment practices regarding citizenship and immigration status.