Senior Software Engineer - HashiCorp Secure Products

Introduction

At IBM Software, we transform client challenges into solutions. Building the world's leading AI-powered, cloud-native products that shape the future of business and society. Our legacy of innovation creates endless opportunities for IBMers to learn, grow, and make an impact on a global scale. Working in Software means joining a team fueled by curiosity and collaboration. You'll work with diverse technologies, partners, and industries to design, develop, and deliver solutions that power digital transformation. With a culture that values innovation, growth, and continuous learning, IBM Software places you at the heart of IBM's product and technology landscape. Here, you'll have the tools and opportunities to advance your career while creating software that changes the world.

Your role and responsibilities

We're looking for Senior Engineers with a deep backend focus to join our team. In this role, you can expect to:

• Lead the design, prototyping, and implementation of multi-phase features and tools with a high business impact, ensuring stability and usability

• Collaborate closely with Product Design, Product Management, and cross-functional engineering teams to align on priorities and technical solutions

• Act as a subject matter expert in Golang development and quality standards, influencing internal teams and the external community

• Assess and break down large projects across multiple teams, evaluating tradeoffs to maintain project momentum and alignment

• Spot potential technical issues before they happen. Recommend improvements to maintain quality, efficiency, and productivity

• Stay current on industry trends and best practices, advancing their adoption within the team and across the organization

• Advocate for technical roadmaps that enhance organizational performance, and participate in system-wide debugging, maintenance, and production support

• Mentor

Required technical and professional expertise

• You have professional experience developing with modern programming languages and frameworks, and are interested in working in Golang specifically

• You have experience working with distributed systems, and cloud providers such as AWS, Azure, or GCP, with a focus on scalability, resilience, and security

• Demonstrated conflict resolution skills with the ability to proactively identify and address technical and project-related challenges, balancing differing perspectives to maintain project alignment and team cohesion

• Skilled in organization and increasingly perceptive of team dynamics and work relationships. Able to guide technical decisions to support current and long-term objectives for various projects and products

• Innovative thinker who can identify areas for improvement and propose solutions that enhance technical roadmaps, processes, and methodologies, ensuring the delivery of high-quality outcomes

You have developed the skill of leveling up your peers through code and design reviews, pair programming, and mentorship.

Preferred technical and professional experience

• Experience with directly with internal teams, the customer and/or external community and designs solutions based on requirements and the needs of the customer

• You have experience using HashiCorp products (Terraform, Packer, Waypoint, Nomad, Vault, Boundary, Consul).

• You have prior experience working in cloud platform engineering teams

IBM is committed to creating a diverse environment and is proud to be an equal-opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, caste, genetics, pregnancy, disability, neurodivergence, age, veteran status, or other characteristics. IBM is also committed to compliance with all fair employment practices regarding citizenship and immigration status.