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 required)
Experience and comfortability programming in modern programming languages
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.

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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

“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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