About the team
The HashiCorp DBRE team is responsible for maintaining and improving the reliability of HashiCorp’s databases across our cloud products, using a software-engineering-based approach (as is typical of SRE teams here). Our focus is on making it easy for teams to use databases safely. This team will involve a mixture of database engineering, product engineering practices and SRE-like engagement with cloud engineering teams.
About the role
This engineering role is on a nascent, growing engineering team. The team is responsible for products that touch many areas of engineering organizations at HashiCorp, so applicants will need to thrive in collaborative environments, have product-focused mindsets, and be comfortable iterating in an agile manner towards solutions. This is an individual contributor role.
What you’ll do (responsibilities)
- Be responsible for and drive operational excellence with databases
- Deliver elegant, user-focused solutions that address reliability challenges for databases
- Lead engineers in technical discussions supporting their development goals while guiding them using database best practices
- Build technical skills and relationships within a team of engineers and SREs
What you’ll need (basic qualifications)
- 5+ years of professional backend software development experience in cloud environments.
- Experienced in working closely with relational databases, Postgres in particular.
- Enjoy working on a variety of scopes spanning software engineering, operations, and DBRE.
- Worked to operationalize complex software at scale.
- Worked on infrastructure teams in customer-centric and agile organizations with empathy and compassion.
- Worked with SaaS or another type of managed software offering.
- Expertise in one or more of the major public clouds.
- Work well in a high trust environment.
- Enjoys learning as part of a highly collaborative team.
What is our hiring process like?
The below serves as a basic outline; we may choose to add or remove steps based on the information that we gather during the process.
- Introductory Call with a Recruiter (30 min via Zoom)
- Interview with an Engineering Manager (60 min via Zoom)
- Interview Loop with additional team members, with the following panel (60 min each via Zoom):
- Pair Programming Interview
- Systems and Architecture Interview
- Operational Aptitude Interview
- Offer
We do our best to accommodate your programming language of choice for technical interviews.#LI-RemoteIndividual pay within the range will be determined based on job related-factors such as skills, experience, and education or training.The base pay range for this role in the SF Bay Area / NYC area is:$176,500—$207,600 USDThe base pay range for this role in California (excluding SF Bay Area), New York (excluding NYC), Seattle Metro, Denver / Boulder Metro, Washington D.C., or Maryland is:$161,800—$190,300 USDThe base pay range for this role in Colorado (excluding Denver / Boulder Metro), Illinois, Minnesota, or Washington (excluding Seattle Metro) is:$147,100—$173,000 USD
