HCP Core Platform - Staff Engineer

About the Core Platform team

Core Platform is a foundational domain team within the Cloud Platform Services (CPS) organization. Our CPS teams engineer and manage the cloud platform services, software delivery technologies and operational tooling that enable the HashiCorp Cloud Platform (HCP). We partner directly with our Product & Design teams to deliver:

• HCP Core Platform Services

• HCP Identity/IAM Platform

• HCP Billing Platform

• HCP Visibility Platform

The Core Platform team is tasked with building and maintaining the HCP Cloud Service pipelines. They oversee the distribution of releases, enhance tools for HCP developers, and oversee the management of the Terraform SDKs, libraries, CLI, and development environments that developers access as needed.

Have you been a Customer / consumer of HashiCorp offerings? This is an opportunity as an Engineer Consumer of HashiCorp’s products to bring your experience, interest and insight “inside”, enabling and improving the foundational services these Products rely on.

About the Role

The Core Platform team helps deliver the PAAS backbone and partners to build the HashiCorp Cloud Platform (HCP) that powers HashiCorp’s software delivery.

As a Staff Engineer, your sphere of influence is primarily at the departmental level: you will do a mix of execution and enablement work, and you must be comfortable operating under ambiguity. You will also be helping to fix, design, prototype and implement features and tools while ensuring stability and usability. All of our work is open source, so we collaborate with the open source community and many internal teams.

This is an opportunity to lead at a high-visibility, high-impact company. Millions of engineers and operators globally rely on HashiCorp products every day to predictably and consistently deliver infrastructure & platform capabilities for their businesses.

What you’ll do (responsibilities):

• Partner and lead within our Engineering, Product & Design (EPD) model to define, affirm & drive a Core Platform roadmap that is fully aligned with Product and Business objectives
• Build relationships with engineering managers, product managers, and engineers on other teams in the RD organization, so you can contribute to department-level strategy.
• Deliver and operationalize key Core Platform capabilities, including our HCP Terraform SDKs, core CLIs and PAAS service management capabilities
• Cultivate excellence in the reliability, scalability, security, and craft of the software our team builds
• Develop modern operationalization via policies for monitoring and ongoing management (patching, upgrades, audit requests, etc)
• Present insights and recommendations to drive data-driven decision-making
• Spend time writing. At HashiCorp, we write extensively about engineering and customer functionality needs, potential solutions, and much more. A Request For Comment (RFC) document is the first step in developing a solution.
• Engage open source contributors, promote healthy community involvement, and establish standards for successfully working in the open.
• Provide code review, mentorship, and support to HashiCorp employees, community members, and partners.
• Work on issues and improvements critical to the success of HashiCorp customers and the broader community.

What you’ll need (basic qualifications)

• 10+ years of experience in software engineering with experience with large-scale cloud solutions (AWS, Azure, GCP), including CICD-driven software development, testing and release management.
• 6+ years working with Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) and configuration management tools such as Terraform (preferred), CloudFormation, Pulumi, or Ansible.
• Understanding and knowledge with HashiCorp’s products, specifically Terraform, Nomad, Vault and Consul.
• Understanding and comprehension with the following technologies in use at HashiCorp and by the team: Go, gRPC, Protobuf, Aurora (Postgres), Redis (Elasticache), LaunchDarkly, frontend Javascript / Typescript
• Solid functional knowledge of containers, container management, and container orchestration.
• Robust knowledge of modern cloud security fundamentals, including patch management and secure configurations, with preferred experience in regulated environments.
• Must be familiar with modern software delivery practices, including continuous integration and continuous deployment/delivery (CICD) and the tools used for these methods.
• You have experience with API design. You understand how to work with the constraint of backwards compatibility, and hold a “measure twice, cut once” approach to API development.
• You’re comfortable getting involved with strategic conversations. You may have attempted to translate a high-level company goal into tangible outcomes for your team.

What's nice to have (preferred qualifications)

• Agile/Lean background for projects and project delivery.
• Deep comprehension of automation, automation principles, and different aspects of pipelines and automation delivery.
• Advanced strategic capability with cloud delivery models.
• Deep knowledge of advanced security segmentation and controls.

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