Introduction

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Your role and responsibilities

About the Role: We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced Software Engineer to join our Consul team. You will be designing, building, and maintaining the core of HashiCorp Consul, the open-source and enterprise tool that powers the service mesh and service discovery for thousands of companies worldwide.

This is a high-leverage individual contributor (IC) role where you will have a significant impact on the future development of Consul. You will be joining hands in solving some of the most challenging problems in distributed systems, networking, and cloud-native infrastructure.

Responsibilities:

• Feature Development: Own end-to-end delivery of features and bug fixes with minimal guidance, based on Jira or GitHub issues. Write high-quality, well-tested code, including unit and integration tests.

• Code Quality & Reviews: Actively participate in code reviews, offering thoughtful, constructive feedback with a focus on readability, maintainability, and correctness.

• Documentation: Maintain clear and up-to-date documentation for both technical implementations and user-facing features.

• Support Engagement: Investigate and resolve issues in customers’ production environments with support from senior team members or collaborate with the support team to resolve them in the customer’s environment

• Continuous Learning: Proactively seek feedback and apply it to improve. Demonstrate growing independence while collaborating closely with senior engineers.

Required education

Bachelor's Degree

Preferred education

Master's Degree

Required technical and professional expertise

• 3+ years of professional software engineering experience, ideally working on production-grade distributed systems.

• Strong proficiency in Go (Golang), including a solid understanding of pointers, interfaces, and concurrency (goroutines, channels).

• Hands-on experience building features and debugging issues using logs, metrics, and basic tracing.

• Foundational knowledge of networking (TCP/IP, HTTP, gRPC), operating systems, and cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, Azure, or OpenShift).

• Familiarity with container orchestration concepts (e.g., Kubernetes or Nomad—Pods/Jobs, Services, Deployments).

• Strong problem-solving skills with the ability to work through ambiguous technical challenges with increasing autonomy.

• Understanding of automation and testing strategies, including load, performance, and scalability testing. Experience with CI/CD pipelines (e.g., GitHub Actions)

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science (or related field), or equivalent practical experience

Preferred technical and professional experience

• Familiarity with service mesh technologies (Consul, Istio, Linkerd) or proxies (Envoy, HAProxy). Or have used products like Vault/Nomad in their projects

• Familiarity with various data stores (e.g., SQL, NoSQL, KV stores).

• Exposure to distributed consensus algorithms (e.g., Raft, Paxos).

• Experience with infrastructure as code tools (e.g., Terraform).

• Contributions to open‑source projects.

Years of Experience:
3 - 6