Sr. Platform Engineer - Productivity Systems & Services

Our Team

The HashiCorp Productivity Systems & Services (PSS) team is committed to supporting all of our product teams in their delivery of high-quality software, which meets all of the obligations of our contributors, practitioners, and customers. PSS builds and hosts critical systems for artifact storage, the delivery pipeline, continuous integration, developer tooling, and more. 

We are seeking a Sr. Software Engineer who will play a key role in driving high-impact initiatives that elevate the operational excellence of our broader organization. Collaborating with skilled engineers, you’ll tackle complex technical challenges, develop innovative tools and abstractions, and shape the next generation of our platform. 

What you’ll do (responsibilities) 

Within 1 month you will:

• Learn about HashiCorp’s products, teams, peers, and processes
• Ship your first infrastructure project using HashiCorp tooling like Packer, Terraform, Nomad, and Consul
• Have one on ones with every member of our team and members of other teams
• Experience the HashiCorp culture and get familiar with the Tao of HashiCorp

Within 3 months you will:

• Become a trusted member of the PSS team and a subject matter expert on the systems we build and support
• Take an active role in recommending and designing internal systems to support product, engineering, and security teams
• Recommend improvements to the systems the team builds and supports

Within 6 months you will:

• Drive the research and testing of systems to help meet the needs of our Engineering teams, including writing RFCs to show what thoughts and considerations went into the selection of the system
• Build, deploy, and support new platform components
• Help develop a mature monitoring and alerting methodology for our systems
• Provide occasional after-hours support for our tools in the event of an outage

What you’ll need (basic qualifications)

• You are comfortable and enthusiastic about adopting the HashiCorp way of building systems using an infrastructure as code approach and taking advantage of immutable infrastructure. 
• You have hands-on experience with configuration management tools such as Ansible, Chef, Puppet, or Salt to manage Linux and/or Windows hosts. A thoughtful understanding about when and how to use them and the tradeoffs incurred.
• You have experience operating AWS, Azure or Google Cloud including access control (IAM) and some network topology design.
• You have experience using source management tools like Git.
• You have experience with and are comfortable with programming languages, particularly Golang.
• You have experience with monitoring and alerting as a means of proactively increasing uptime and reliability.
• You have a willingness to learn new technologies and methodologies.
• You understand the difference between shipping a project that’s done versus a project that is perfect.
• You have a customer-centric attitude and willingness to enthusiastically support the engineering teams to help HashiCorp continue to deliver great products and services.

What's nice to have (preferred qualifications)

• Previous platform engineering experience building internal tooling.

HashiCorp welcomes all qualified candidates who have authorization to work in the United States to apply - HashiCorp will not be sponsoring visas for this role at this time. 

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