The Role
As a Senior Backend Engineer on the Vault Customer Engineering team, you will play a critical role in sustaining and enhancing HashiCorp Vault, ensuring it remains a secure, reliable, and performant secrets management solution. You will own and drive complex technical solutions, lead investigations into critical customer issues, and collaborate cross-functionally to improve Vault’s core capabilities.With 6+ years of experience in backend development, distributed systems, and cloud security, you will design, implement, and optimize solutions that improve operability, scalability, and maintainability.
You will serve as a technical mentor for other engineers and contribute directly to the evolution of Vault by addressing high-impact customer and partner concerns.
Key Responsibilities:
- Lead investigations into complex customer-reported issues, identifying root causes and driving long-term solutions.
- Architect and develop improvements to Vault’s core functionality, ensuring high performance, security, and reliability.
- Work closely with cross-functional teams, including product, security, and support teams, to prioritize and resolve customer-impacting issues.
- Enhance debugging, monitoring, and observability tools, making Vault more maintainable and scalable.
- Optimize Vault’s performance and reliability by addressing bottlenecks, improving system architecture, and strengthening security.
- Mentor and guide engineers, conducting code reviews, sharing best practices, and fostering a culture of technical excellence.
- Engage with the Vault open-source community, contributing to discussions, resolving key issues, and driving external collaboration.
- Stay ahead of industry trends in security and secrets management, helping shape Vault’s future roadmap.
This role is ideal for a senior engineer passionate about distributed systems, cloud security, and debugging complex technical challenges while making high-impact contributions to a widely used secrets management platform.
What you’ll do (responsibilities)
We’re looking for Senior Engineers with a deep backend focus to join our team. In this role, you can expect to:
- Design, prototype and implement features and tools while ensuring stability and usability
- Collaborate closely with Product Design and Product Management partners, as well as engineers on your team and others
- Act as a subject matter expert on quality development with an emphasis on Golang development
- Lead and execute large-scale projects, ensuring the reliable delivery of key features from design through full implementation and troubleshooting.
- Drive end-to-end project lifecycle, including architecture design, implementation, and issue resolution, with a focus on quality and efficiency.
- Evaluate project tradeoffs and propose solutions, proactively removing blockers and keeping stakeholders informed on progress, issues, and milestones.
- Collaborate with internal teams, customers, and external stakeholders to design solutions that align with requirements and customer needs.
- Advocate for strategic technical roadmap initiatives that enhance the system’s overall effectiveness across teams and the organization.
- Debug and resolve complex issues to improve the quality and stability of products or solutions
- Review and assess code for quality, design patterns, and optimization opportunities, ensuring best practices are followed
- Mentor and guide software engineers, sharing technical knowledge and promoting best practices in development processes
- Facilitate collaborative team activities, such as code pairing and group troubleshooting, to foster a productive and cohesive team environment
- Support reliable production environments, including participating in an oncall rotation
- Strive for quality through maintainable code and comprehensive testing from development to deployment
What you’ll need (basic qualifications)
- You have at least 6+ years of experience as an engineer
- You have professional experience developing with modern programming languages and frameworks, and are interested in working in Golang and Ruby specifically
- You have experience working with distributed systems, particularly on a cloud provider such as AWS, Azure or GCP, with a focus on scalability, resilience and security.
- Emerging ability to direct work and influence others, with a strategic approach to problem-solving and decision-making in a collaborative environment
- Demonstrated business acumen and customer focus, with a readiness for change and adaptability in dynamic situations
- Cloud-native mindset and so
- lid understanding of DevOps principles in a cloud environment
- Familiarity with cloud monitoring tools to implement robust observability practices that prioritize metrics, logging and tracing for high reliability and performance.
- Intentional focus on stakeholder management and effective communication, fostering trust and relationship-building across diverse teams
- Integrated skills in critical thinking and data-driven analysis, promoting a growth mindset and continuous improvement to support high-quality outcomes
What's nice to have (preferred qualifications)
You have experience using HashiCorp products (Terraform, Packer, Waypoint, Nomad, Vault, Boundary, Consul).
- You have prior experience working in cloud platform engineering teams. #LI-Hybrid #LISG1
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