**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-Remote 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: $176,500—$207,600 USD The 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 USD The 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