Staff Engineer - Backend - HCP Terraform (Ionic)

About the team

HCP Terraform, a leading provider of cloud infrastructure automation solutions, is seeking talented Software Engineers to join our product development teams. In this role, you will play a key part in building innovative products that meet the evolving needs of our growing customer base.

On the Terraform Ionic team, you will have the opportunity to work on crucial features related to RBAC, Projects, Teams, Organizations, and Variable Sets. This role will allow you to directly contribute to enhancing the functionality and performance of our platform, impacting how users interact with and benefit from our services.

We’re looking for a Staff Software Engineer to join our team. The majority of the software we build and maintain is written in Ruby (Ruby on Rails), but we also do some frontend development using Ember.js. You will help review, fix, design, prototype, and implement features and tools while ensuring stability, scalability, and usability. You will interact regularly with collaborators on other teams (even outside of R&D) to deliver multi-team engineering efforts. This is an opportunity to have an impact not just on the productivity and lives of developers, but on improving an industry as a whole.

We operate autonomously in a highly collaborative, remote-first environment. Anchored by pragmatism, reflection, and humility, we’re steadily improving our processes and technical practices. With the support of your teammates and manager, you’ll grow your skills to reach the next level in your career.

What you’ll do (responsibilities)

• Lead the design, development, and implementation of RBAC-related back services on which HCP Terraform relies
• Provide technical guidance and mentorship to engineers within the Ionic team.
• Continuously improve the product by writing code in systems written in Ruby on Rails
• Investigate problems, performance bottlenecks, and orchestration issues which span multiple services   
• Spend time writing about customer problems, potential solutions, and more in the form of RFCs (Requests For Comments)
• Enable your teammates through technical mentorship, code reviews, and pairing 
• Participate in a 24/7 on-call rotation that supports our production services

What you’ll need (basic qualifications)

• Have 7+ years of production experience working on backend applications written in Ruby on Rails
• Expertise designing and building authorization systems (RBAC and ABAC)
• You have the ability to work with a large group of skilled engineers, providing technical guidance, and decision making ability
• You have the ability to take on vague and partially defined problems and be able to provide solutions
• You have experience or interest in learning Terraform and Terraform internals
• You have experience navigating large and complex codebases
• You have experience leading software development projects from conception to delivery
• You are proactive and excel at swiftly delivering valuable results to meet product goals
• You enjoy working collaboratively on a fully-remote, fast-moving team
• You have strong written communication skills, and you understand how to use tools like code review to asynchronously unblock and level up your peers

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