A career in IBM Software means you'll be part of a team that transforms our customer's challenges into industry-leading solutions. We are an infinitely curious team, always seeking new possibilities, and dedicated to creating the world's leading AI-powered, cloud-native software solutions. Our renowned legacy creates endless global opportunities for our network of IBMers. We are a team of deep product experts, ensuring exceptional client experiences, with a focus on delivery, excellence, and obsession over customer outcomes. This position involves contributing to HashiCorp's offerings, now part of IBM, which empower organizations to automate and secure multi-cloud and hybrid environments. You will join a team managing the lifecycle of infrastructure and security, enhancing IBM's cloud solutions to ensure enterprises achieve efficiency, security, and scalability in their cloud journey.

Your Role And Responsibilities

At 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 opensource community as well as our enterprise level customers. Engineering at HashiCorp is largely a remote team. 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.

What You’ll Do (responsibilities)

We’re looking for engineers with a backend focus to join our team. In this role, you can expect to:

Design, prototype and implement features and tools while ensuring stability and usability

Collaborate closely with Product Design and Product Management partners, as well as engineers on your team and others

Follow through on assigned tasks to build and ship medium-sized features, managing task expectations as needed

Engage in team discussions around diagnosis, planning, and workflow improvements based on product requirements

Apply independent judgment within team practices to determine appropriate actions and solutions

Address unforeseen challenges, making recommendations to keep tasks on track

Debug and resolve small to medium-level bugs in products or solutions to maintain quality

Review technical contributions for quality and consistency, collaborating with stakeholders to resolve issues and recommend technical or architectural changes

Participate in on-call rotations to support product needs

This job can be performed from anywhere in the US

Preferred Education

Bachelor's Degree

Required Technical And Professional Expertise

You have two or more years of professional experience as an engineer
You have professional experience developing with modern programming languages and frameworks, and are interested in working in Golang
You have experience working with distributed systems, particularly on a cloud provider such as AWS, Azure or GCP, with a focus on scalability, resilience and security
Experience in reviewing & refactoring code & making suggestions that improve the codebase and product
Writing tests for more complex or edge cases

Preferred Technical And Professional Experience

Demonstrated ability to build trust and foster relationships across teams and stakeholders, with a focus on valuing diverse perspectives and proficiently managing expectations
Proven decision-making abilities with an intentional, data-driven approach to solving complex technical challenges and delivering results
Emerging focus on customers and systems-thinking mindset, with a commitment to personal accountability, self-awareness, and continuous improvement in support of high-quality outcomes
You have experience using HashiCorp products (Terraform, Packer, Waypoint, Nomad, Vault, Boundary, Consul)
You have prior experience working in cloud platform engineering teams
Emerging experience in mentoring team members, helping to enhance their problem-solving, critical thinking, and planning skills