About the team

The Platform Engineering team is composed of Site Reliability Engineers and Software Engineers working on the HCP Terraform hosted service. Our team ensures that the platform’s underlying infrastructure, data stores, and core foundational services are reliable, performant, and robust.   

We’re looking for a Software Engineer II to join our team. The Engineers on our team own the core foundational services that power the entire HCP Terraform hosted service. These mission-critical services and data stores compose the Terraform plan and apply pipeline, and are used by every Terraform run which hits HCP Terraform. 

An ideal candidate will have experience building distributed systems at scale, a principled approach to service security, and an interest in working closely with both infrastructure and feature teams to solve complex problems that span several services.  

If you fit this profile, we’d love to meet you! We have a large footprint and a quickly-growing user base, with lots of interesting problems and plenty of opportunities for growth and development.

In this role, you can expect to: Develop and maintain the backend services on which HCP Terraform relies Continuously improve the product by writing code in systems written in Ruby on Rails and Golang Investigate problems, performance bottlenecks, and orchestration issues which span multiple services    Enable your teammates through technical mentorship, code reviews, and pairing  Participate in a 24/7 on-call rotation that supports our production services You’re a great addition if you: Have 2+ years of production experience working on any of the following: Backend applications (e.g., Ruby on Rails) Databases (e.g., Postgres, Redis) Services written in Go Strive for quality through maintainable code and comprehensive testing from development to deployment Experience building and scaling distributed, highly available systems  clearly while remaining empathetic and kind Have an eagerness to learn through humility and reflection Have experience debugging performance bottlenecks for live services and systems Are familiar with best practices for application and infrastructure security

At HashiCorp, we are committed to hiring and cultivating a diverse team. If you are uncertain about applying, we encourage you to please do.  We’d love to hear from you! 

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:$151,300—$178,000 USDThe base pay range for this role in Seattle Metro, Denver / Boulder Metro, New York (excluding NYC), Washington D.C., or California (excluding SF Bay Area) is:$138,600—$163,100 USDThe base pay range for this role in Colorado (excluding Denver / Boulder Metro) and Washington (excluding Seattle Metro) is:$126,100—$148,300 USD