Software Engineering Manager - HashiCorp Terraform Registry
Introduction
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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 HashiCorp Engineering
We build the Infrastructure Cloud which allows enterprises to take a unified approach to Infrastructure Management:
[1] Infrastructure Lifecycle Management: Build / Deploy / Manage
[2] Terraform allows you to use infrastructure as code to provision and manage any infrastructure across your organization.
[3] Packer standardizes image workflows across cloud providers, allowing teams to build, govern and manage any image for any cloud.
[4] Waypoint makes infrastructure easily accessible at scale, enabling platform teams to deliver golden patterns and workflows with an internal developer platform.
[5] 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.
We deliver the Infrastructure Cloud through an enterprise-grade unified SaaS platform, [6] HCP, as well as to enterprises through self-managed/on-premises options.
Across product engineering and platform engineering teams, we are looking for great engineers to come join us in developing the Infrastructure Cloud!
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About this Role
This is a technical engineering management role within the Infrastructure Product Group, specifically managing the Terraform Registry engineering team. The Terraform Registry is a platform that hosts modules and providers for Terraform, enabling users to share and discover reusable infrastructure as code components. The engineering team is a globally distributed group of 7 engineers responsible for both public and private offerings of the Terraform Registry.
This is a uniquely collaborative role because the Terraform Registry is critical to the operation of Terraform. As such, applicants are expected to be comfortable managing stakeholder expectations, communicating effectively both internally and externally, and setting the correct expectations for team success. This includes management, coaching, and assisting product management with prioritization and planning.
We view management and technical leadership as two tracks, both requiring a highly technical background. This role is uniquely technical given the deeply infrastructure-related nature of the product. The expected priorities for this role, in order, are:
Management and coaching.
Working closely with product and design partners.
Providing technical guidance to your team.
What you'll do (responsibilities)
● Support the career growth for individuals on a team expanding and maintaining the Terraform Registry for a fast-growing user base.
● Collaborate with product management to drive the development of the Terraform Registry and ensure its uptime and availability.
● Communicate effectively and partner with several engineering teams across the Terraform organization to achieve org-wide objectives, while assisting the team with effective prioritization of work.
● Continuously evaluate and improve processes, tools, and workflows to increase efficiency, collaboration, and output.
● Support the teams on-call rotation ensuring the team is equipped to handle and address incidents promptly and maintain reliability of the product
● Lean on the technical background to guide design and architecture conversations between engineers to a clear outcome.
● Ensure the on-time release of well-tested and reliable software.
● Leaders are expected to spend time with their teams and clients and therefore are generally expected to be in the workspace a minimum of 3 days a week, subject to business needs.
Required education
High School Diploma/GED
Preferred education
Bachelor's Degree
Required technical and professional expertise
3+ years of experience directly managing software engineers.
* Prior experience as a software developer with technologies such as Ruby on Rails or Go.
* Experience managing a diverse, distributed team and flexibility to support a global team located across the US, Europe, and Australia.
* Experience with running high availability services and production infrastructure and infrastructure-related technologies.
* Phenomenal communication skills for working across the organization, capable of building strong relationships with peers and leadership.
Preferred technical and professional experience
A Bachelor or higher degree in computer science, computer engineering, or related fields.
* Direct experience with Terraform and/or other infrastructure related technologies.
* Experience navigating and managing projects spanning multiple codebases and organizations with separate ownership.
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The compensation range and benefits for this position are based on a full-time schedule for a full calendar year. The salary will vary depending on your job-related skills, experience and location. Pay increment and frequency of pay will be in accordance with employment classification and applicable laws. For part time roles, your compensation and benefits will be adjusted to reflect your hours. Benefits may be pro-rated for those who start working during the calendar year.
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