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.

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 required)
• Experience and comfortability programming (writing code/building apps) in a modern programming language
• 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.

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 and will be a mix of software development and database reliability responsibilities.

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