Sr. Manager, Engineering - Core Data

United States (Remote); #LI-Remote

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. This team owns 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.

We’re seeking a Senior Manager to lead a new team responsible for developing the infrastructure and services that will enable event-driven architecture. This team will enhance data visibility across the company, empowering us to leverage data more effectively both internally and for our customers. An ideal candidate will have experience managing a team building distributed systems at scale, working with smart data, has a principled approach to service security, and an interest in working closely with feature teams to solve complex problems that span several products.  At HashiCorp it is essential that we focus our engineering efforts on delivering scalable, highly reliable, secure, and user-friendly software. Engineering managers are part of that goal, by helping the team stay focused on the right things, while also maintaining a positive and collaborative working environment.

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 (responsibilities):

• Work with senior leadership to develop a roadmap which supports the organization’s goals 
• Support the career growth and morale of a team of skilled software engineers at varying skill levels, through setting goals, mentoring, and providing feedback
• Collaborate with Product and Design counterparts to scope and assess feasibility of initiatives
• Ensure larger efforts are broken down into achievable milestones
• Effectively triage incoming work requests from a variety of internal and external sources, ensuring the work most aligned with the team’s objectives is handled
• Improve processes to boost the team's productivity and reduce regressions
• Provide escalation support for oncall/customer incidents
• Continue to grow the team with kind, collaborative, and skilled engineers

What you’ll need (basic qualifications):

• A college or university degree in Computer Science or equivalent 
• 3+ years of software engineering management experience
• 5+ years engineering experience working on the following: Creating smart data, Backend applications, Pub/Sub systems, Observability, Services written in Go 
• Strong communication skills, including written communication, is required as HashiCorp is a fully remote company with a lot of asynchronous collaboration. 
• A successful background partnering with PM
• The ability to take in highly complex, deeply technical distributed systems concepts and relay them to stakeholders in a comprehensible way.
• Experience breaking down large projects into small milestones.
• Phenomenal communication skills for working across the organization, capable of building strong relationships with peers and leadership
• The ability to navigate ambiguity while remaining empathetic and kind

You’re a great addition if you have (preferred qualifications):

• A background in leading engineering teams for large-scale enterprise platforms
• Experience building, scaling and debugging distributed, highly available systems
• Interest to take on new challenges and are driven to deliver the highest quality solution for our customers
• A passion for continuous improvement and learning

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!