Sr. Engineer II - Backend - HCP Terraform (Platform Services)

About the team

The Platform Services team is composed of Site Reliability Engineers and Software Engineers working on the HCP Terraform hosted service. Our team ensures that the platform’s underlying infrastructure, data stores, and core foundational services are reliable, performant, and robust.   

About the role

We’re looking for a Senior Software Engineer II to join our team. This role also serves as the Technical Leader of the Software Engineering portion of the team.  The Engineers on our team own the core foundational services that power the entire HCP Terraform hosted service. These mission-critical services and data stores compose the Terraform plan and apply pipeline, and are used by every Terraform run which hits HCP Terraform. 

An ideal candidate will have experience building distributed systems at scale, a principled approach to service security, and an interest in working closely with both infrastructure and 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.

What you’ll do (responsibilities)

In this role, you can expect to:

• Develop and maintain the Platform Engineering core services written in Golang
• Work with the infrastructure team to define the next-generation architecture of the HCP Terraform platform
• Establish and foster best practices around service security and performance
• Investigate problems, performance bottlenecks, and orchestration issues which span multiple services   
• Strive for quality through maintainable code and comprehensive testing from development to deployment
• Communicate clearly while remaining empathetic and kind
• Have an eagerness to learn through humility and reflection
• Have experience debugging performance bottlenecks for live services and systems
• Participate in a 24/7 on-call rotation that supports our production services 

As the Tech Lead, you can expect to:

• Provide technical leadership to teammates through coaching and mentorship
• Be responsible for technical deliverables, development timelines, and ensuring software architecture is aligned with the business and customer needs
• Planning project scope and direction aligning with business and customer needs
• Conduct code reviews and monitoring compliance with coding standards

What you’ll need (minimum qualifications)

• Experience building and scaling distributed, highly-available systems
• Informed opinions from experience about service ownership best practices, incident response and resolution, and platform resiliency
• Solid knowledge with one systems language, and ability to code in several more (our foundational services are written in Go and we also have a Rails monolith) 
• Experience debugging performance bottlenecks for live services and systems   
• Familiarity with best practices for application and infrastructure security
• Strong communication and leadership skills

How We Work

At HashiCorp, we operate according to a strong set of company principles, many of which are described in The Tao of HashiCorp. We value top-notch collaboration and communication skills, both among internal teams and in how we interact with our users. We take care to balance and be responsive to the needs of our open source community as well as our enterprise level customers.

Engineering at HashiCorp is largely a remote team, and this role is no exception. While prior experience working remotely isn't required, we are looking for team members who perform well given a high level of independence and autonomy.

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!

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