HashiCorpHA

Sr. Engineer - Backend - HCP Waypoint

HashiCorp was founded by Mitchell Hashimoto and Armon Dadgar in 2012 with the goal of revolutionizing datacenter management: application development, delivery, and maintenance.

HashiCorp

Employee count: 501-1000

Salary: 147k-207k USD

United States only

About the team

HCP Waypoint is designed to enable platform teams to define golden patterns and workflows for developers to enable management of applications at scale. HCP Waypoint and HCP Terraform work collaboratively to let developers quickly set up their apps' infrastructure with just a button press. The goal of Waypoint is to help platform teams provide a clear and consistent developer experience for their development teams while providing a central catalog of applications, day-2+ operations, and their associated metadata. HCP Waypoint is a rapidly evolving product with lofty aspirations.

The Waypoint engineering team is responsible for building HCP Waypoint on top of the HashiCorp Cloud Platform (HCP) integrating closely with HCP Terraform. We are a mix of backend and frontend engineers working alongside design and product management in a larger product line alongside Terraform, Vagrant, and Packer. We support a UI, CLI, Terraform Provider, and API. We are a small but mighty distributed and remote team that values cross-functional collaboration.

What you’ll do (responsibilities)

  • Guide the technical approach and architecture of Waypoint
  • Develop, advocate for, and support new and existing features for the Waypoint product
  • Collaborate closely with design, product, frontend, and your fellow backend engineers
  • Interface with our larger HCP ecosystem and design system
  • Provide code review, mentorship, and support to other engineers
  • Work on issues and improvements critical to the success of HashiCorp customers
  • 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
  • Participate and contribute to team conversations around product, process, and best practices
  • Mentor and guide software engineers, sharing technical knowledge and promoting best practices in development processes
  • Support reliable production environments, including participating in an oncall rotation
  • Facilitate collaborative team activities, such as code pairing and group troubleshooting, to foster a productive and cohesive team environment

What you’ll need (basic qualifications)

  • 6+ years of production experience building accessible and performant web applications
  • Experience with Go
  • You have experience working with distributed systems, particularly on a cloud provider such as AWS, Azure or GCP, with a focus on scalability, resilience and security.
  • Balancing async and synchronous working styles. Understanding the value of written communication, but recognizing when having a synchronous conversation may be more valuable
  • Familiarity with infrastructure management concepts and/or Terraform. Experience building or interfacing with internal developer platforms/portals or other self service applications is a plus
  • 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
  • Cloud-native mindset and solid understanding of DevOps principles in a cloud environment
  • Familiarity with cloud 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 experience using HashiCorp products (Terraform, Packer, Waypoint, Nomad, Vault, Boundary, Consul) or familiarity with infrastructure as code
  • You have prior experience working in cloud platform engineering teams
  • Experience building or interfacing with internal developer platforms/portals or other self service applications
  • Familiarity with GenAI or an interest in exploring their potential application to accelerate development and enhance productivity
  • Eastern/Central Time Zone location is preferred, but not required, to support team members across the US and Europe

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:$176,000—$207,000 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:$161,300—$189,800 USDThe base pay range for this role in Colorado (excluding Denver / Boulder Metro), Illinois, Minnesota, or Washington (excluding Seattle Metro) is:$146,600—$172,500 USD

HashiCorp is an IBM subsidiary which has been acquired by IBM and will be integrated into the IBM organization. HashiCorp will be the hiring entity. By proceeding with this application you understand that HashiCorp will share your personal information with other IBM subsidiaries involved in your recruitment process, wherever these are located. More information on how IBM protects your personal information, including the safeguards in case of cross-border data transfer, are available here: link to IBM privacy statement.”

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Salary: 147k-207k USD

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About HashiCorp

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HashiCorp was founded by Mitchell Hashimoto and Armon Dadgar in 2012 with the goal of revolutionizing datacenter management: application development, delivery, and maintenance.

The datacenter of today is very different than the datacenter of yesterday, and we think the datacenter of tomorrow is just around the corner. We're writing software to take you all the way from yesterday to today, and then safely to tomorrow and beyond.

Physical, virtual, containers. Private cloud, public cloud, hybrid cloud. IaaS, PaaS, SaaS. Windows, Linux, Mac. These are just some of the choices faced when architecting a datacenter of today. And the choice is not one or the other; instead, it is often a combination of many of these.

HashiCorp builds tools to ease these decisions by presenting solutions that span the gaps. Our tools manage both physical machines and virtual machines, Windows, and Linux, SaaS and IaaS, etc. And we're committed to supporting next-generation technologies, as well.

HashiCorp was founded and continues to be run by the primary authors of all our core technologies powering thousands of companies worldwide. We speak at conferences and write books related to application and infrastructure management.

All our foundational technologies are open source and developed openly, and have been since 2010.

The Tao of HashiCorp is the foundation that guides our vision, roadmap, and product design. As you evaluate using or contributing to HashiCorp's products, it may be valuable to understand the motivations and intentions for our work.

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Disability insurance

You will be covered under our short term and long term disability policies in the event that you are unable to work for an extended period of time due to a health condition.

Life insurance

HashiCorp provides life insurance coverage in the amount equal to your annual salary at no cost to you. If you would like additional coverage, you have the option to enroll in voluntary life insurance for yourself or your dependents.

Maternity and parental leave

To bond with their newborn, we provide birthing parents up to 16 weeks of paid maternity leave via short-term disability and HashiCorp’s parental leave policy. For non-birthing parents (including adoptive) we offer 8 weeks of paid parental leave.

Expanded mental health support

We understand the importance of supporting our employees mental health, and are committed to doing this through a variety of resources. In addition to offering an Employee Assistance Program (EAP), we provide employees access to an on-demand behavioral healthcare benefit through Ginger.

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501-1000 employees

Founded in

2012

Chief executive officer

Dave McJannet

Employees live in

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