Golang / Go Job: Senior Software Engineer

Senior Software Engineer at HashiCorp

Remote › 🇺🇸🇨🇦 100% remote position (in US or Canada)   (Posted Apr 16 2020)

About the company
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 open source 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.

Our Products

We build Consul, Nomad, Vault, Terraform, Vagrant, and Packer. Alongside of that, we deploy enterprise products for each in a variety of different ways: licensed and unlicensed binaries, appliances to public cloud platforms, and hosted SaaS platforms. Our products help organizations of all sizes run any infrastructure for any application.

Job description
Senior Software Engineer - Vault

Remote

About HashiCorp

HashiCorp is a fast-growing startup that solves development, operations, and security challenges in infrastructure so organizations can focus on business-critical tasks.  We build tools to ease these decisions by presenting solutions that span the gaps.  Our tools manage both physical machines and virtual machines, Windows, and Linux, SaaS and IaaS, etc. 

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 open source 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.

About the Role

We build Consul, Nomad, Vault, Terraform, Vagrant, and Packer. Alongside of that, we deploy enterprise products for each in a variety of different ways: licensed and unlicensed binaries, appliances to public cloud platforms, and hosted SaaS platforms. Our products help organizations of all sizes run any infrastructure for any application.

We are looking for an experienced engineer to join the Vault team and focus on developing the core subsystems in Vault. You will help design, prototype, and implement core features while ensuring the scalability and stability of Vault.

This person will be a part of the Vault engineering team at HashiCorp, working to provide a fantastic and broadly used secrets tool for businesses and individuals handling all sizes and types of infrastructure.

In this role, you can expect to:
Guide the technical approach and architecture of Vault
Help contribute to the Vault community by providing code review, mentorship, and support to HashiCorp employees, community members, and partners
Advocate and support improvements to Vault APIs and core to improve development and integration of tools and plugins
Work on issues and improvements critical to the success of HashiCorp customers and the broader community

You may be a good fit for our team if:
You have 4+ years of experience in a lower-level language like Go
You have experience working with distributed software
You have a working understanding of commonly-used security technologies such as  privileged access management and SSH
You have experience with customer support or OSS community support to help work with the Vault community
You have experience operating and maintaining production systems in a public cloud environment
You have expertise in one or more of the major public clouds
You are familiar with infrastructure management concepts
You have experience using Vault
In your cover letter, please describe why you're interested in working at HashiCorp, and on the Vault team in particular. Specifics of your past experience that are relevant to this role are great to include too.

HashiCorp embraces diversity and equal opportunity. We are committed to building a team that represents a variety of backgrounds, perspectives, and skills. We believe the more inclusive we are, the better our company will be.

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