Staff Software Engineer - HashiCorp Secure

Your Role And Responsibilities

• Drive Engineering and Operational Excellence: Set the standard for engineering excellence, driving best practices, architecture review processes, and operational maturity across the organization.
• Influence Technical Strategy: Apply deep knowledge of the business and advanced software engineering expertise to guide and influence the most challenging projects that are transformational, complex, high-risk, or technically demanding.
• Lead in Innovation: Anticipate, identify, and execute on innovative and visionary concepts for IBM/HashiCorp products and practices that drive the product roadmap, solve complex industry issues, and aim for game-changing market leadership.
• Steward Architecture: Shape the organization's technical direction on key technologies, architectural patterns, and client solutions, particularly in areas like reliable data lifecycle, secure orchestration, and control plane.
• Force Multiply the Cross-Functional Team: Act as a force multiplier by actively mentoring senior engineers, delegating high-leverage work, developing and building a sustainable, strong peer technical network to scale organizational impact.

Preferred Education

Bachelor's Degree Required

Technical And Professional Expertise

• A progressive experience in software engineering with modern programming languages like Golang, distributed systems, and enterprise services at scale.
• This includes rich experience operating in a Staff Engineer, Senior Staff Engineer or Principal Engineer capacity with demonstrated influence spanning multiple teams, product lines, or organizations.
• Proven ability to serve as the Technical Lead for challenging, business-critical, and highly complex projects, leading winning cross-functional teams to deliver strategic technical solutions with clarity and conviction.
• You have experience in IAM, SCIM and Identity Federation.
• Demonstrated experience crafting and successfully driving a multi-quarter/multi-year technical strategy and vision that aligns with product goals and anticipates future industry needs.
• Demonstrated communication skills that thrive in a document-based culture, leveraging both asynchronous and synchronous collaboration to effectively partner with, unblock, and guide your peers and leadership.
• A collaborative approach that emphasizes cross-functional inclusion for product management, design and engineering teams.
• Ability to navigate ambiguity while remaining empathetic and kind.

Preferred Technical And Professional Experience

• You have experience using HashiCorp secure products (Vault, Radar, Boundary).
• You are familiar with domain driven design (DDD).
• You eagerly take on new challenges and are driven to deliver the highest quality solution.
• You pursue continuous self-improvement and a passion for mentoring others.