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Senior Engineer

AT IBM
IBM

Senior Engineer

San Francisco, CA

Introduction

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.

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Your role and responsibilities

Your Roles and Responsibilities

This section is an opportunity to explain the responsibilities and expectations of the role.

● Lead the creation of multi-phase features, including design, breakdowns, implementation, testing, and maintenance.

● Maintain and support our continuous integration and build pipelines, helping to ideate and implement improvements.

● Negotiate with stakeholders for prioritization and planning for releases and sprints.

● Mentor other developers across the team and the organization, reviewing pull requests for Vault and Vault Enterprise, architecture, and designs.

● Participate in cross-team working groups as a subject matter expert.

● Help the open source community with our Vault Community Edition sustaining rotation, reviewing the community's pull requests and feature requests, and addressing issues.

● Give demos of new features and workflows.

● Maintain a very high standard for quality and security, and keep Vault customers' trust.

● Participate in our on-call rotation to assist HashiCorp support.

● Interview candidates and provide detailed feedback to hiring committees.

Required education

Bachelor's Degree

Preferred education

Bachelor's Degree

Required technical and professional expertise

●Experience and facility with Go or a similar programming language.

● Experience writing automated unit, integration, and functional tests.

● Source code control best practices using Github or other similar tools.

● Communicate clearly while remaining empathetic and kind.

● Have an eagerness to learn through humility and reflection.

● A willingness to advocate for clean code, refactoring when needed, and understanding tradeoffs.

Preferred technical and professional experience

● Understanding of best practices in secrets management.

● Experience with authentication and authorization workflows.

● Comfortable working in Linux shells.

● Experience designing user-friendly API & CLI interfaces.

● Familiarity with Vault, and other Hashicorp products (such as Terraform or Boundary).

● Experience selling products to enterprise customers.

ABOUT BUSINESS UNIT

IBM Software infuses core business operations with intelligence-from machine learning to generative AI-to help make organizations more responsive, productive, and resilient. IBM Software helps clients put AI into action now to create real value with trust, speed, and confidence across digital labor, IT automation, application modernization, security, and sustainability. Critical to this is the ability to make use of all data, because AI is only as good as the data that fuels it. In most organizations data is spread across multiple clouds, on premises, in private datacenters, and at the edge. IBM's AI and data platform scales and accelerates the impact of AI with trusted data, and provides leading capabilities to train, tune and deploy AI across business. IBM's hybrid cloud platform is one of the most comprehensive and consistent approach to development, security, and operations across hybrid environments-a flexible foundation for leveraging data, wherever it resides, to extend AI deep into a business.

YOUR LIFE @ IBM

In a world where technology never stands still, we understand that, dedication to our clients success, innovation that matters, and trust and personal responsibility in all our relationships, lives in what we do as IBMers as we strive to be the catalyst that makes the world work better.

Being an IBMer means you'll be able to learn and develop yourself and your career, you'll be encouraged to be courageous and experiment everyday, all whilst having continuous trust and support in an environment where everyone can thrive whatever their personal or professional background.

Our IBMers are growth minded, always staying curious, open to feedback and learning new information and skills to constantly transform themselves and our company. They are trusted to provide on-going feedback to help other IBMers grow, as well as collaborate with colleagues keeping in mind a team focused approach to include different perspectives to drive exceptional outcomes for our customers. The courage our IBMers have to make critical decisions everyday is essential to IBM becoming the catalyst for progress, always embracing challenges with resources they have to hand, a can-do attitude and always striving for an outcome focused approach within everything that they do.

Are you ready to be an IBMer?

ABOUT IBM

IBM's greatest invention is the IBMer. We believe that through the application of intelligence, reason and science, we can improve business, society and the human condition, bringing the power of an open hybrid cloud and AI strategy to life for our clients and partners around the world.

Restlessly reinventing since 1911, we are not only one of the largest corporate organizations in the world, we're also one of the biggest technology and consulting employers, with many of the Fortune 50 companies relying on the IBM Cloud to run their business.

At IBM, we pride ourselves on being an early adopter of artificial intelligence, quantum computing and blockchain. Now it's time for you to join us on our journey to being a responsible technology innovator and a force for good in the world.

IBM is proud to be an equal-opportunity employer. All qualifiedapplicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race,color, religion, sex, gender, gender identity or expression, sexualorientation, national origin, caste, genetics, pregnancy, disability,neurodivergence, age, veteran status, or other characteristics. IBM is alsocommitted to compliance with all fair employment practices regardingcitizenship and immigration status.

Client-provided location(s): San Francisco, CA, USA
Job ID: IBM-44689
Employment Type: Other

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