Manager, Engineering - Core Data

About the team

The Core Data org is composed of Software Engineers and Product Managers working on the governance, publishing, consuming, indexing, cataloging, and storing of data schemas and data across services, APIs and organizations. Our team creates and curates the platform’s underlying data systems and ensures they are reliable, performant, and robust. This team owns the core foundational services that power the entire lifecycle of data across the company. These mission-critical services and systems compose the Core Data domain, and will be used by every entity publishing or consuming data across the whole business.

We’re seeking a Manager to lead a team responsible for the development of standardized, automated, and well-governed data solutions that empower data-driven decision-making, enhance operational efficiency, and fuel business growth. You’ll play a critical role in delivering high-quality data and scalable data products tailored to meet the evolving needs of the company and its stakeholders. We are committed to building optimized, secure, and reliable systems that ensure data integrity and availability across the organization.

An ideal candidate will have experience managing a team building distributed systems at scale, working with smart data, has a principled approach to service security, and an interest in working closely with analytics teams and business users to solve complex problems that span several products. At HashiCorp it is essential that we focus our engineering efforts on delivering scalable, highly reliable, secure, and user-friendly software. Engineering managers are part of that goal, by helping the team stay focused on the right things, while also maintaining a positive and collaborative working environment.

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 (responsibilities):

• Work with senior leadership to develop a roadmap which supports the organization’s goals
• Support the career growth and morale of a team of skilled software engineers at varying skill levels, through setting goals, mentoring, and providing feedback
• Collaborate with Product and Design counterparts to scope and assess feasibility of initiatives
• Ensure larger efforts are broken down into achievable milestones
• Effectively triage incoming work requests from a variety of internal and external sources, ensuring the work most aligned with the team’s objectives is handled
• Improve processes to boost the team's productivity and reduce regressions
• Provide escalation support for oncall/customer incidents
• Continue to grow the team with kind, collaborative, and skilled engineers

What you’ll need (basic qualifications):

• A college or university degree in Computer Science or equivalent
• 3+ years of software engineering management experience
• 3+ years engineering experience working on the following: Creating and maintaining platform services, Creating smart data, Backend applications, Pub/Sub systems, Observability, Services written in Go
• Strong communication skills, including written communication, is required as HashiCorp is a fully remote company with a lot of asynchronous collaboration.
• A successful background partnering with PM
• The ability to take in highly complex, deeply technical distributed systems concepts and relay them to stakeholders in a comprehensible way.
• Experience breaking down large projects into small milestones.
• Phenomenal communication skills for working across the organization, capable of building strong relationships with peers and leadership
• The ability to navigate ambiguity while remaining empathetic and kind

You’re a great addition if you have (preferred qualifications):

• A background in leading engineering teams for large-scale enterprise platforms
• Experience building, scaling and debugging distributed, highly available systems
• Interest to take on new challenges and are driven to deliver the highest quality solution for our customers
• A passion for continuous improvement and learning

Individual pay within the range will be determined based on job related-factors such as skills, experience, and education or training.

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