We’re looking for Staff Engineers with a deep backend focus to join our team. In this role, you can expect to: * Share technical leadership of the Vault Secrets team with a peer tech lead, focused on Vault's secrets engines, auth methods and plugin SDK. * Shape the technical roadmap with product management, and present technical direction and tradeoffs to Vault leadership. * Work closely with the technical leads of other Vault teams across global time zones, including core, UI and the other plugin teams. Align designs and code ownership on shared plugins and platform features, resolve disagreements, take part in architecture reviews, and avoid teams building duplicate solutions. Break large cross-team projects into phases and weigh the tradeoffs. * Lead the design, prototyping and implementation of multi-phase, high-impact features. Stay hands-on in code. * Move plugins onto shared secrets-lifecycle capabilities (rotation, health checks, events, metadata), so features are built once instead of separately in every plugin. * Own plugin quality end to end: set the test strategy, use defect and escalation trends to decide where to invest, and work with the test automation and support teams to catch problems before customers do. * Act as a trusted technical advisor to enterprise customers and partners. Take part in escalations, security vulnerability response and production support. * Mentor engineers at every level through design reviews, code reviews and pairing. Raise engineering standards, and drive AI-assisted development across the organization.