Sr. Backend Engineer - Core Data

About Engineering at HashiCorp

On the HashiCorp engineering team, we build the Infrastructure Cloud which allows enterprises to take a unified approach to Infrastructure and Security Lifecycle Management:

Infrastructure Lifecycle Management: Build / Deploy / Manage

• Terraform allows you to use infrastructure as code to provision and manage any infrastructure across your organization.
• Packer standardizes image workflows across cloud providers, allowing teams to build, govern and manage any image for any cloud.
• Waypoint makes infrastructure easily accessible at scale, enabling platform teams to deliver golden patterns and workflows with an internal developer platform.
• Nomad brings modern application scheduling to any type of software, allowing you to manage containers, binaries and VMs efficiently in the cloud, on-premises and across edge environments.

Security Lifecycle Management: Protect / Inspect / Connect

• Vault provides organizations with identity-based security to automatically authenticate and authorize access to secrets and other sensitive data.
• Boundary standardizes secure remote access across dynamic environments, allowing organizations to connect users and manage access with identity-based security controls.
• Consul standardizes service networking, allowing you to discover and securely connect any service across any runtime with identity-based service networking. 

We deliver the Infrastructure Cloud through an enterprise-grade unified SaaS platform, HCP, as well as to enterprises through self-managed/on-premises options.

We are looking for great engineers to come join us in developing the Infrastructure Cloud!

About the team

The Core Data org is composed of Software Engineers and Product Managers working on the governance, publishing, consuming, indexing, cataloging, and storing of data schemas and data across services, APIs and organizations. Our team creates and curates the platform’s underlying data systems and ensures they are reliable, performant, and robust.

We’re looking for a Sr. Engineer to join our team. The Engineers on our team own the core foundational services that power the entire lifecycle of data across the company. These mission-critical services and systems compose the Core Data domain, and will be used by every entity publishing or consuming data across the whole business.

An ideal candidate will have experience building distributed systems at scale, working with smart data, a principled approach to service security, and an interest in working closely with feature teams to solve complex problems that span several services.

If you fit this profile, we’d love to meet you! We have a large footprint and a quickly growing user base, with lots of interesting problems and plenty of opportunities for growth and development.

In this role, you can expect to:

• Own large projects, judiciously evaluate trade-offs, and remove project blockers
• Collaborate remotely on a cross-functional team including Engineering, Product, and Design to deliver excellent customer experiences
• Continuously improve the product by writing code in systems written in Go
• Periodically implement features or resolve bugs using Golang
• Maintain a reliable production application for our customers while working alongside infrastructure engineering
• 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

You’re a great addition if you:

• Have a college or university degree in Computer Science or equivalent 
• Have 5+ years of production experience* working on the following: Creating smart data, Backend applications (e.g., Go), Pub/Sub systems (e.g., Google pub/sub, AWS SQS, NATS), Observability (e.g., Datadog), Services written in Go 
• Experience with writing services in Go is a plus
• Strive for quality through maintainable code and comprehensive testing from development to deployment
• Experience building, scaling and debugging distributed, highly available systems
• Navigate ambiguity while remaining empathetic and kind
• Eagerly take on new challenges and are driven to deliver the highest quality solution for our customers
• Enjoy learning

* Production experience means you have worked professionally on software that operates in a production environment serving users.

At HashiCorp, we are committed to hiring and cultivating a diverse team. If you are on the fence about whether you meet our requirements, please apply anyway!