HashiCorp is hiring a Staff Engineer - Backend for the Terraform Authorship team, a center of innovation responsible for foundational improvements to Terraform and advancing the state of the art of Infrastructure as Code. You will lead substantial customer-facing projects and coordinate multi-team engineering efforts.
What You'll Do
- Develop, advocate for, and support new and existing features across the entire Terraform product line.
- Own large customer-facing projects, judiciously evaluate trade-offs, and remove project blockers.
- Spend time writing about customer problems and potential solutions 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.
What We're Looking For
- 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 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.
Technical Stack
- Golang
- Terraform
Team & Environment
The Terraform Authorship team is a 'center of innovation' guiding efforts across teams.
Benefits & Compensation
- SF Bay Area / NYC area: $246,200—$289,600 USD
- California (excluding SF Bay Area), New York (excluding NYC), Seattle Metro, Denver / Boulder Metro, Washington D.C., or Maryland: $225,600—$265,400 USD
- Colorado (excluding Denver / Boulder Metro), Illinois, Minnesota, or Washington (excluding Seattle Metro): $205,100—$241,300 USD
Work Mode
This is a global position open to candidates in the United States.
HashiCorp is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity employer.
