Engineer II - Backend - HashiCorp Vault Secrets

About the Team

At HashiCorp, we build Consul, Nomad, Vault, Terraform, Vagrant, and Packer, and we offer enterprise solutions for each. These are available as licensed and unlicensed binaries, cloud appliances, and hosted SaaS platforms. Our tools enable organizations of all sizes to manage any infrastructure for any application.

We are seeking an experienced engineer to join our Vault Secrets team. In this role, you will focus on developing the core subsystems of Vault Secrets, designing, prototyping, and implementing essential features, as well as ensuring its scalability and stability.

As part of the Vault Secrets engineering team at HashiCorp, you will contribute to providing reliable and user-friendly access to a widely used secrets management tool, catering to businesses and individuals managing diverse infrastructures.

What you’ll do (responsibilities):

• Work on foundational backend features for our enterprise, cloud-native Vault product
• Interact regularly with Platform/SRE teams on system, quality, and reliability features
• Gather feedback and interact regularly with internal teams, users and HashiCorp customers
• Work toward full ownership of design, testing, release, and running the features in production, and receive mentorship from senior engineers 
• Program mostly in Golang, learning from and contributing to a team committed to continually improving their skills
• Work on issues and improvements critical to the success of HashiCorp customers and the broader community
• Participate in a 24/7 on-call rotation that supports our critical production services. On-call is currently ~a week, every 2-3 months. 

What you’ll need (minimum qualifications):

• You have professional experience using Go in complex, production environments
• You have a strong understanding of security principles and secrets management (e.g., Vault, AWS Secrets Manager, GCP Secret Manager, Doppler, CyberArk, Akeyless)
• You are familiar with microservices architectures and ideally have seen microservices in operation at a global scale, including its active development
• You enjoy working and have prior experience working in high-performance or distributed systems
• You have experience or desire to scale new products
• You have in-depth experience in cloud/SaaS development
• You are excited to collaborate and brainstorm on topics such as performance, security, user interactions in complex systems
• You have built or operated a large-scale/enterprise SaaS service

In the first month, you will:

• Learn about the various products, tools, and the team
• Meet regularly with your onboarding guide for pairing sessions and begin building the context around the work you will be doing
• Have 1:1s with other team members that you will be working closely with
• Ship out your first set of tickets for particular services within the Vault Secrets product and participate in regular code reviews

In month 2, you will:

• Begin working on your first project, working towards an MVP, seeking feedback and iterating along the way
• Participate in cross-team engineering design discussions, helping to enhance HashiCorp’s cloud offerings
• Continue building your understanding of the product, as well as its operational needs, by shadowing other engineers through their on-call rotations

In month 3, you will:

• Have an increasing understanding of opportunities available to enhance the product offering and some of its common challenges
• Have opportunities to contribute and influence the technical product roadmap
• Begin your on-call rotations to support the operations of the work you and your team members have shipped to production
• Work with your manager to develop and craft a professional development plan that supports your career and builds upon your strengths
• Build your first project proposal and shared understanding of its design, implementation and operations with your team as well as any related teams

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 someone from our recruiting team.
• First Interview with an Engineering Manager
• Interview Loop with additional team members, with the following panel:
  • Technical Code Pairing interview
  • Code Review interview
  • Communication and Collaboration interview
  • Systems and architecture interview
• If applicable, a final conversation with the Engineering Manager for the team you would be joining
• Offer