Staff Backend Engineer, HashiCorp
Terraform Authorship
$205.1-289.6k
Salary dependent on location
Cloud-computing infrastructure provider
Open for applications
Cloud-computing infrastructure provider
1001+ employees
Open for applications
$205.1-289.6k
Salary dependent on location
1001+ employees
Company mission
To help organizations to operate infrastructure in the cloud because it believes that infrastructure enables innovation.
Role
Who you are
- 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 Terraform and Terraform internals
- 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
What the job involves
- The Terraform Authorship team is a “center of innovation” delivering foundational improvements to Terraform that advance the state of the art of Infrastructure as Code
- The Authorship team is responsible for guiding efforts across teams to drive ambitious workflow improvements across the entire Terraform product line
- 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
- Develop, advocate for, and support new and existing features in the entire Terraform 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
Our take
HashiCorp's software streamlines cloud operations for companies' teams, offering open-source solutions to facilitate cloud migration and utilization. Additionally, the company provides commercial versions of its tools, catering to businesses that prefer managed services.
With a pay-per-hour pricing model and adaptable products, HashiCorp enables companies to construct infrastructure spanning legacy systems, private clouds, and multiple cloud providers. its flagship product, Terraform, allows developers to create consistent rules, enhancing operational efficiency and reducing costs.
In a landscape increasingly reliant on AI and automation, HashiCorp simplifies the intricate architecture of data center management, ensuring a rising demand for its services. The company remains committed to enhancing its platform with new features and improving operational efficiency to fuel continued growth.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
5% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 5 rounds)
Mar 2020
$175m
SERIES E
Nov 2018
$100m
SERIES D
Total funding: $349m
Company benefits
- Medical, dental & vision
- Life & disability insurance
- Flexible spending account (FSA)
- Vacation and Other Leaves
- 401(k)
- Family Expansion Benefit
- Maternity and Parental Leave
- Expanded Mental Health Support
Company HQ
The East Cut, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Mitchell Hashimoto
(Co-Founder)Has worked as CEO and CTO of the company. Was previously Operations Engineer at Kiip, and a Developer at CitrusByte.
Armon Dadgar
(Co-Founder & CTO)Former Software Engineer at Kiip. Worked as a Software Development Intern at Amazon.
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