Software Engineer II - Infrastructure Transformation

The Infrastructure Transformation team within HashiCorp's Internal Platform Services organization is at the forefront of redefining how we operate and support our internal customers. By driving large-scale infrastructure advancements, we design, develop, and deploy forward-thinking solutions that provide the foundation for HashiCorp's cloud products.

Working closely with internal stakeholders and peers across Internal Platform, we deliver scalable, reliable, and efficient solutions that advance our collective capabilities. Leveraging the HashiCorp (Terraform, Consul, Nomad, Vault, Packer) suite and in-house tooling, our team enables streamlined workflows, automation, and impactful improvements to our cloud hosted infrastructure environment.

We are seeking a mid-level engineer who will play a key role in driving high-impact initiatives that elevate the operational excellence of our broader organization. Collaborating with skilled engineers, you'll tackle complex technical challenges, develop innovative tools and abstractions, and shape the next generation of our infrastructure platform.

What you'll do (responsibilities)

• Perform hands-on coding, configurations, and deployment of tools and services to improve infrastructure delivery, performance and scalability.
• Work cross-functionally with Internal Platform Engineering teams to align infrastructure solutions with technical and business requirements.
• Contribute to multiple concurrent projects, focusing on key business initiatives, abstractions, migrations, and performance optimization.
• Review and test platform solutions, make recommendations, and contribute to technical proposals.
• Create and maintain detailed documentation of infrastructure configurations, procedures, and troubleshooting guides.
• Effectively leverage project management fundamentals, identifying and collaborating with stakeholders, determining scope, making suggestions, and managing expectations.
• Regularly adapt to new platforms, technologies, and areas of focus as objectives are realized and new initiatives begin.

Within 30 days, you will:

• Learn about HashiCorp's products, teams, peers, and processes
• Integrate yourself into ongoing initiatives and deliver your first changes using HashiCorp tooling like Packer, Terraform, Nomad, and Consul
• Join ongoing ceremonies and have one-on-ones with each member of our team
• Experience the HashiCorp culture and get familiar with the Tao of HashiCorp

Within 60 days, you will:

• Become a trusted member of the team and a subject matter expert on the systems we build and support
• Take an active role in recommending and designing internal systems to support product, engineering, and security teams
• Create tools for automating deployment, monitoring, and operations of the platform
• Recommend improvements to the systems the team builds and supports

Within 90 days, you will:

• Drive the research and testing of systems to help meet the needs of our Engineering teams, including writing RFCs to show what thoughts and considerations went into the selection of the system
• Build, deploy, and support new platform components
• Help develop and deliver abstractions, migrations, tooling, and process to support our systems
• Provide occasional after-hours support for in-flight team initiatives in the event of an outage

What you'll need (basic qualifications)

• You have professional backend software development experience in cloud environments.
• You have strong programming language experience using Go or another modern programming language.
• You have experience operating AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud infrastructure.
• You are familiar with microservices architectures, and ideally have seen microservices in operation at a global scale, including its active development.
• You are familiar with infrastructure management and operations lifecycle concepts
• You have experience building and supporting the production infrastructure for a large-scale SaaS application.
• You have a good handle and understanding of platform engineering.
• You exhibit exceptional problem-solving abilities with a proactive and analytical approach to identifying and resolving infrastructure issues.
• You are comfortable and enthusiastic about adopting the HashiCorp way of building systems, using an infrastructure-as-code (IaC) approach, and taking advantage of immutable infrastructure.
• You have experience using source management tools like Git
• You are willing and eager to learn new technologies and methodologies
• You are a proficient collaborator and are able to effectively communicate across diverse teams and partners.
• You have a customer-centric attitude and willingness to enthusiastically support the engineering teams to help HashiCorp continue to deliver great products and services

What's nice to have (preferred qualifications)

• Strong project management fundamentals and a demonstrable proficiency in navigating through project phases and activities effectively.
• Experience with AWS services such as EC2, S3, RDS and ECS in a professional setting.
• A passion for automation, optimization, reliability, and operational maturity.
• Proficient in container orchestration (e.g., Nomad, Kubernetes), infrastructure-as-code tools (e.g., Terraform, Ansible), and other HashiCorp products (e.g., Packer, Consul, Vault)
• Experienced in working across a distributed team, able to consistently deliver quality results when given a high level of independence and autonomy.

At HashiCorp, we are committed to hiring and cultivating a diverse team. If you are uncertain about applying or don't meet all of the criteria, we encourage you to apply anyway. We'd love to hear from you!

HashiCorp welcomes all qualified candidates who have authorization to work in the United States to apply - HashiCorp will not be sponsoring visas for this role at this time.

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