Senior Software Engineer II

Your role and responsibilities

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. Your role and responsibilities About the team - Engineering at HashiCorp On the HashiCorp engineering team, we build the Infrastructure Cloud which allows enterprises to take a unified approach to Infrastructure and Security Lifecycle Management: Terraform allows you to use infrastructure as code to provision and manage any infrastructure across your organization. Packer standardizes image workflows across cloud providers, allowing teams to build, govern and manage any image for any cloud. Waypoint makes infrastructure easily accessible at scale, enabling platform teams to deliver golden patterns and workflows with an internal developer platform. Nomad brings modern application scheduling to any type of software, allowing you to manage containers, binaries and VMs efficiently in the cloud, on-premises and across edge environments. What you'll do (responsibilities) We are looking for a highly experienced Software Engineer to drive our long-term technical success across multiple teams. This role requires strategic technical leadership to architect and influence complex, long-term initiatives, while simultaneously setting unified technical standards and engineering excellence that raise the bar for all teams. A core component of this role is acting as a force multiplier, building a sustainable peer technical network through mentorship and delegation. The ideal candidate will demonstrate exceptional flexibility to step into various high-leverage roles to deliver the highest impact where the organization needs it most, will be excited by the prospect of building new, innovative solutions from the ground up alongside a team of highly passionate and talented engineers. Drive Engineering and Operational Excellence: Set the standard for engineering excellence, driving best practices, architecture review processes, and operational maturity across the organization. Strategic Technical Influence: Apply deep knowledge of the business and advanced software engineering expertise to guide and influence the most challenging projects that are transformational, complex, high-risk, or technically demanding. Thought Leadership and Innovation: Anticipate, identify, and execute on innovative and visionary concepts for IBM/HashiCorp products and practices that drive the product roadmap, solve complex industry issues, and aim for game-changing market leadership. Architectural Stewardship: Shape the organization's technical direction on key technologies, architectural patterns, and client solutions, particularly in areas like reliable data lifecycle, secure orchestration, and the intelligent control plane. Technical Force Multiplier: Act as a critical force multiplier by actively mentoring senior engineers, delegating high-leverage work, and building a sustainable, strong peer technical network to scale organizational impact.

Required education

Bachelor's Degree

Preferred education

Master's Degree

Required technical and professional expertise

Required technical and professional expertise You have at least 10+ years of experience as an engineer working in Golang You have professional experience developing with modern programming languages and frameworks You have success stories of building scalable application from groud-up. You have experience working with distributed systems, particularly on a cloud provider such as AWS, Azure or GCP, with a focus on scalability, resilience and security. Demonstrated experience in reviewing & refactoring code and making suggestions that improve the codebase and product. Experience writing tests that cover complex and edge cases. Demonstrated ability to build trust and foster relationships across teams and stakeholders, with a focus on valuing diverse perspectives and proficiently managing expectations Cloud-native mindset and solid understanding of DevOps principles in a cloud environment Proven decision-making abilities with an intentional, data-driven approach to solving complex technical challenges and delivering results Strong customer focus and systems-thinking mindset, with a commitment to personal accountability, self-awareness, and continuous improvement in support of high-quality outcomes

Preferred technical and professional experience

Preferred technical and professional experience You have experience using HashiCorp products (Terraform, Packer, Waypoint, Nomad, Vault, Boundary, Consul). You have prior experience working in cloud platform engineering teams Emerging experience in mentoring team members, helping to enhance their problem-solving, critical thinking, and planning skills.

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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.

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Client-provided location(s): Cochin, India

Job ID: IBM-81946

Employment Type: OTHER

Posted: 2025-12-19T18:48:42