Sr. Engineer - Vault Cloud Crypto

About the team

We build Consul, Nomad, Vault, Terraform, Vagrant, and Packer. Alongside that, we deploy enterprise products for each in a variety of different ways: licensed and unlicensed binaries, appliances to public cloud platforms, and hosted SaaS platforms. Our products help organizations of all sizes run any infrastructure for any application.

This role is a Senior-level Software Engineer on the Vault team at HashiCorp. The Vault team works on both open source and enterprise versions of Vault, programming primarily in Go with a focus on stability, reliability, performance, and security. Vault is used in critical environments and operated by a range of organizations and individuals to solve infrastructure management problems.

This role provides an opportunity to help design, prototype, and implement core features while ensuring the stability of the product across a range of use-cases. Our teams’ work can be viewed on GitHub in the core products (for Vault, Nomad, or Consul) or in libraries our teams depend on, like raft, memberlist, and go-plugin.

You can learn more about the Vault product with our Co-Founder & CTO by watching this video here: Introduction to HashiCorp Vault with Armon Dadgar

In this role, you can expect to:

• Help contribute to the HashiCorp community by providing code review, mentorship, and support to HashiCorp employees, community members, and partners
• Collaborate with highly skilled HashiCorp Engineers in a team based approach on delivering key Vault functionality
• Advocate and support improvements to Vault APIs and core to improve development and integration of tools and plugins
• Work on issues and improvements critical to the success of HashiCorp customers and the broader community
• Own the full lifecycle of experience-appropriate feature development from design through testing and release
• Program mostly in Golang, learning from and contributing to a team committed to continually improving their skills 

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:

• Lead/drive end-to-end project lifecycle, including architecture design, implementation, and issue resolution, with a focus on quality and efficiency
• Collaborate closely with Product Design and Product Management partners, as well as engineers on your team and others to align on requirements and customer needs
• Evaluate project tradeoffs and propose solutions, proactively removing blockers and keeping stakeholders informed on progress, issues, and milestones
• 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
• 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)

• 5-7 years of building Enterprise applications: Backend applications written in Golang or similar 
• Experience working with distributed systems, 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
• Familiarity with 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 skills or interest in practical/applied cryptographic algorithms, or experience with Hardware Security Modules (HSMs), Public Key Infrastructure (PKI), Advanced Da