About the team

We are looking for an experience back end engineer to join the Vault Self-Managed Foundations team. The Foundations team is responsible for core functionality of Vault (identity and access management, storage and replication, cryptographic capabilities, billing, and observability). As a backend developer you will help design, prototype, and implement critical functionality in order to deliver a scalable, highly reliable, and secure product.

We operate autonomously in a highly collaborative, remote-first environment. Anchored by kindness, communication, and humility, we provide the Vault Community and Vault Enterprise customers the ability to solve mission-critical problems securely.

With the support of your teammates, product management, manager, and developers across the organization you’ll grow your breadth and depth of knowledge to reach the next level in your career.

This person will be a part of the Vault engineering team at HashiCorp, working to provide a fantastic and broadly used secrets tool for businesses and individuals handling all sizes and types of infrastructure.

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

What you’ll do (responsibilities)

This section is an opportunity to explain the responsibilities and expectations of the role.

• Lead the creation of multi-phase features, including design, breakdowns, implementation, testing, and maintenance.
• Maintain and support our continuous integration and build pipelines, helping to ideate and implement improvements.
• Negotiate with stakeholders for prioritization and planning for releases and sprints.
• Mentor other developers across the team and the organization, reviewing pull requests for Vault and Vault Enterprise, architecture, and designs.
• Participate in cross-team working groups as a subject matter expert.
• Help the open source community with our Vault Community Edition sustaining rotation, reviewing the community’s pull requests and feature requests, and addressing issues.
• Give demos of new features and workflows. 
• Maintain a very high standard for quality and security, and keep Vault customers’ trust.
• Participate in our on-call rotation to assist HashiCorp support.
• Interview candidates and provide detailed feedback to hiring committees.

What you’ll need (minimum qualifications)

Experience and facility with Go or a similar programming language.

• Experience writing automated unit, integration, and functional tests.
• Source code control best practices using Github or other similar tools.
• Communicate clearly while remaining empathetic and kind.
• Have an eagerness to learn through humility and reflection.
• A willingness to advocate for clean code, refactoring when needed, and understanding tradeoffs.

What's nice to have (preferred qualifications)

• Understanding of best practices in secrets management.
• Experience with authentication and authorization workflows.
• Comfortable working in Linux shells.
• Experience designing user-friendly API & CLI interfaces.
• Familiarity with Vault, and other Hashicorp products (such as Terraform or Boundary).
• Experience selling products to enterprise customers.

Individual 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:$204,000—$240,000 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:$187,000—$220,000 USDThe base pay range for this role in Colorado (excluding Denver / Boulder Metro), Illinois, Minnesota, or Washington (excluding Seattle Metro) is:$170,000—$200,000 USD