Site Reliability Engineer II - DBRE

About the team

The HashiCorp DBRE team is responsible for maintaining and improving the reliability of HashiCorp’s databases across our cloud products, using a software-engineering-based approach (as is typical of SRE teams here). Our focus is on making it easy for teams to use databases safely. This team will involve a mixture of database engineering, product engineering practices and SRE-like engagement with cloud engineering teams.

About the role

This engineering role is on a nascent, growing engineering team. The team is responsible for products that touch many areas of engineering organizations at HashiCorp, so applicants will need to excel at collaboration, have product-focused mindsets, and be comfortable iterating in an agile manner towards solutions. This is an individual contributor role. 

What you’ll do (responsibilities):

• Work with application and database experts to troubleshoot performance issues in databases
• Build technical skills and relationships within a team of engineers and SREs
• Deliver elegant, user-focused solutions that address reliability challenges for databases

What you’ll need (basic qualifications)

• 3+ years of professional backend software development experience in cloud environments
• Experience working with relational databases, Postgres in particular
• Enjoy working on a variety of scopes spanning software engineering or operations
• Work well in a high trust environment
• Enjoys learning as part of a highly collaborative team

What is our hiring process like?

The below serves as a basic outline; we may choose to add or remove steps based on the information that we gather during the process.

• Introductory Call with a Recruiter (30 min via Zoom)
• Interview with an Engineering Manager (60 min via Zoom)
• Interview Loop with additional team members, with the following panel (60 min each via Zoom):
• Pair Programming Interview
• Systems and Architecture Interview
• Operational Aptitude Interview
• Offer

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