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
We are looking for a Staff Engineer to join the Vault Cloud Unification team. You will help design, prototype, and implement critical functionality in order to deliver a scalable, highly reliable, and secure product.
We operate autonomously in a highly collaborative, remote-first environment. Anchored by kindness, communication, and humility, we provide the Vault Community and Vault Enterprise customers the ability to solve mission-critical problems securely.
With the support of your teammates, product management, manager, and developers across the organization you'll grow your breadth and depth of knowledge to reach the next level in your career.
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.
About the role
The majority of the libraries we maintain are written in Golang and are open source or source-available, receiving contributions from a large community of users. You will help review, fix, design, prototype, and implement features and tools while ensuring stability and usability. You will lead large customer-facing projects and interact regularly with collaborators on other teams to deliver multi-team engineering efforts. This is an opportunity to have an impact not just on the productivity and lives of developers, but on improving an industry as a whole.
What you'll do (responsibilities)
- Develop, advocate for, and support new and existing features in the entire Vault product line
- Own large customer-facing projects, judiciously evaluate trade offs and remove project blockers
- Spend time writing about customer problems, potential solutions, and more in the form of RFCs (Requests For Comments)
- Engage open source contributors, promote healthy community engagement, and establish standards for effectively working in the open
- Empathize with the end user and be their voice when influencing priorities and technical decisions
- Participate in cross-team working groups while developing your knowledge as a subject matter expert
- Enable your teammates through technical contributions, code reviews, and pairing
- Work with internal and external stakeholders to determine and prioritize new features and enhancements critical to the success of HashiCorp customers and the broader community
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Required education
Bachelor's Degree
Preferred education
Bachelor's Degree
Required technical and professional expertise
- You have 15+ years of professional software engineering experience
- You have professional experience developing with Go
- You have experience with command-line API and/or programming language development
- You have experience or interest in learning Vault
- You have experience or are interested in working in a source-available development environment
- You have experience navigating daunting large and complex codebases
- You have experience leading software development projects from conception to delivery
- You enjoy working collaboratively on a fully-remote team
- You have strong written communication skills, and you understand how to use tools like code review to asynchronously unblock and level up your peers
Preferred technical and professional experience
- Familiarity with both HashiCorp and IBM products and services.
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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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