Staff Engineer - Backend - Terraform Authorship - Remote

Overview

The Terraform Authorship team is a “center of innovation” delivering foundational improvements to Terraform that advance the state of the art of Infrastructure as Code. The Authorship team is responsible for guiding efforts across teams to drive ambitious workflow improvements across the entire Terraform product line.

In Short

• Develop, advocate for, and support new and existing features in the entire Terraform product line
• Own large customer-facing projects, judiciously evaluate trade offs and remove project blockers
• Spend time writing about customer problems, potential solutions, and more in the form of RFCs (Requests For Comments)
• Engage open source contributors, promote healthy community engagement, and establish standards for effectively working in the open
• Empathize with the end user and be their voice when influencing priorities and technical decisions
• Participate in cross-team working groups while developing your knowledge as a subject matter expert
• Enable your teammates through technical contributions, code reviews, and pairing
• Work with internal and external stakeholders to determine and prioritize new features and enhancements critical to the success of HashiCorp customers and the broader community

Requirements

• You have 15+ years of professional software engineering experience
• You have professional experience developing with Go
• You have experience with command-line API and/or programming language development
• You have experience or interest in learning Terraform and Terraform internals
• You have experience or are interested in working in a source-available development environment
• You have experience navigating daunting large and complex codebases
• You have experience leading software development projects from conception to delivery
• You enjoy working collaboratively on a fully-remote team
• You have strong written communication skills, and you understand how to use tools like code review to asynchronously unblock and level up your peers

Benefits

• Competitive salary based on experience
• Fully remote work environment
• Opportunity to work on open-source projects
• Engagement with a large community of developers
• Professional development opportunities