Senior Software Development Engineer (Sr SDE)

The Role

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

Terraform provides complex infrastructure lifecycle management to organizations with a single workflow to provision their cloud, private datacenter, and SaaS infrastructure. The Terraform Enterprise team’s mandate is to deliver TFE on-prem solutions to the customer’s environments, with seamless user experience in installation, administration, operation and maintenance.  As a result, this team is responsible for a wide range of responsibilities to service the diverse customer base. These include but are not limited to software development, infrastructure, release management, on-call Product engg support and more. 

We leverage major cloud providers: AWS, Azure, GCP, Openshift and invest heavily in deployment options in Docker and Kubernetes.The current stacks are Go, Terraform, Ruby on Rails, GitHub Actions and more. 

Role and Responsibilities

The team’s key technical competencies are broad, but can be summarized to the following: 

• Software engineering: requirements gathering, prototyping, implementation, validation, build and deployment, production monitoring.
• Infrastructure, system and security engineering: scaling, disaster recovery planning, error handling.
• Solution discovery: ability to identify options to both technical and business challenges, and the willingness to experiment and validate.
• Test and Deploy solutions and automate to replace manual processes with Automation and scripting.
• Expert level knowledge of source control, build, release, and configuration management tools (i.e., git,, bamboo, jenkins, ansible etc)
• Collaborate with multiple engineering teams to ensure seamless coordination, release readiness, and proactive issue resolution

What you’ll need (basic qualifications)

• Design, prototype and implement features and tools while ensuring stability and usability and Collaborate closely with Product Design and Product Management partners, as well as engineers on your team and others
• 6+ years of working experience in infrastructure, application software development, release management or product deployment.Experience with CI/CD pipelines and integrating automated testing.
• Act as a subject matter expert on quality development with an emphasis on Golang development- min 4-5 years of experience
• Experience working on an Enterprise product and / or participating in on-call support for production incidents is a plus.
• Lead and execute large-scale projects, ensuring the reliable delivery of key features from design through full implementation and troubleshooting.
• Evaluate project tradeoffs and propose solutions, proactively removing blockers and keeping stakeholders informed on progress, issues, and milestones.
• Debug and resolve complex issues to improve the quality and stability of products or solutions
• Review and assess code for quality, design patterns, and optimization opportunities, ensuring best practices are followed
• Mentor and guide software engineers, sharing technical knowledge and promoting best practices in development processes
• Facilitate collaborative team activities, such as code pairing and group troubleshooting, to foster a productive and cohesive team environment
• Strive for quality through maintainable code and comprehensive testing from development to deployment

What's nice to have (preferred qualifications)

• You have experience using HashiCorp products (Terraform, Vault, Packer, Waypoint, Nomad,  Boundary, Consul).
• You have prior experience working in cloud platform engineering teams
• Kubernetes & Terraform: Experience deploying and managing infrastructure at scale.
• Knowledge of LTS releases,Cloud-native mindset and solid understanding of DevOps principles 
• Good level knowledge of source control, build, release, and configuration management tools like GIT, and proficiency on Go , scripting, Ansible, terraform etc #LI-Hybrid #LISG1