Senior Software Engineer - HashiCorp Terraform Stacks

Introduction

A career in IBM Software means you'll be part of a team that transforms our customer's challenges into industry-leading solutions. We are an infinitely curious team, always seeking new possibilities, and dedicated to creating the world's leading AI-powered, cloud-native software solutions. Our renowned legacy creates endless global opportunities for our network of IBMers. We are a team of deep product experts, ensuring exceptional client experiences, with a focus on delivery, excellence, and obsession over customer outcomes. This position involves contributing to HashiCorp's offerings, now part of IBM, which empower organizations to automate and secure multi-cloud and hybrid environments. You will join a team managing the lifecycle of infrastructure and security, enhancing IBM's cloud solutions to ensure enterprises achieve efficiency, security, and scalability in their cloud journey.

Your role and responsibilities

About the team

The Terraform Runtime team owns "Stacks". Stacks aim to be a natural next step in extending infrastructure as code to a higher layer using the same Terraform shared modules users enjoy today. They help users optimize the coordination, deployment, and management of interdependent Terraform configurations, across any number of environments, reducing the time and overhead of managing infrastructure with Terraform.

Terraform Authorship is a group of teams that maintains the Core of Terraform (Community Edition) and drives both community and commercial value. Our mission is to keep Terraform at the forefront of the Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) space by driving industry-leading innovations that improve workflows for our customers and global community. We strive to make Terraform the best tool for managing infrastructure, and HCP Terraform the best product for realizing the full value of Terraform.

Terraform has redefined how infrastructure is provisioned and managed, but infrastructure management doesn't stop at deployment. Terraform is seeking to expand beyond traditional provisioning workflows into Day 2 Operations, enabling customers to manage the full lifecycle of infrastructure resources.

About the role

We're looking for a Software Engineer II to join our team. The majority of the libraries we maintain are written in Golang and are open source or source-available, receiving contributions from a large community of users. You will help review, fix, design, prototype and implement features and tools while ensuring stability and usability. You will interact regularly with collaborators on other teams to deliver multi-team engineering efforts. This is an opportunity to have an impact not just on the productivity and lives of developers, but on improving an industry as a whole.

We operate autonomously in a highly collaborative, remote-first environment. Anchored by reflection and humility, we're steadily improving our processes and technical practices. With the support of your teammates and manager, you'll grow your skills to reach the next level in your career.

In this role, you can expect to :

Develop, advocate for, and support new and existing features.

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 follow 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.

Participate in an on-call rotation.

Required technical and professional expertise

You may be a good fit for our team if some of the following apply :

You have professional experience developing with Go.

You have experience with API development.

You have experience or interest in learning Terraform and Terraform internals.

You have experience or are interested in working in an open source software development environment.

You enjoy working collaboratively on a fully-remote, fast-moving 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.

You have 4+ years of professional software engineering experience.

Preferred technical and professional experience

Experience with Terraform and / or Ansible.

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.