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 At HashiCorp, we value top-notch collaboration and communication skills, both among internal teams and in how we interact with our users. We take care to balance and be responsive to the needs of our opensource community as well as our enterprise level customers. Engineering at HashiCorp is largely a remote team. While prior experience working remotely isn't required, we are looking for team members who perform well given a high level of independence and autonomy. What you'll do (responsibilities) We're looking for engineers with a backend focus to join our team. In this role, you can expect to: Design, prototype and implement features and tools while ensuring stability and usability Collaborate closely with Product Design and Product Management partners, as well as engineers on your team and others Follow through on assigned tasks to build and ship medium-sized features, managing task expectations as needed Engage in team discussions around diagnosis, planning, and workflow improvements based on product requirements Apply independent judgment within team practices to determine appropriate actions and solutions Address unforeseen challenges, making recommendations to keep tasks on track Debug and resolve small to medium-level bugs in products or solutions to maintain quality Review technical contributions for quality and consistency, collaborating with stakeholders to resolve issues and recommend technical or architectural changes Participate in on-call rotations to support product needs This job can be performed from anywhere in the US Required education High School Diploma/GED Preferred education Bachelor's Degree Required technical and professional expertise * You have two or more years of professional experience as an engineer * You have professional experience developing with modern programming languages and frameworks, and are interested in working in Golang * You have experience working with distributed systems, particularly on a cloud provider such as AWS, Azure or GCP, with a focus on scalability, resilience and security * Experience in reviewing & refactoring code & making suggestions that improve the codebase and product * Writing tests for more complex or edge cases Preferred technical and professional experience * Demonstrated ability to build trust and foster relationships across teams and stakeholders, with a focus on valuing diverse perspectives and proficiently managing expectations * Proven decision-making abilities with an intentional, data-driven approach to solving complex technical challenges and delivering results * Emerging focus on customers and systems-thinking mindset, with a commitment to personal accountability, self-awareness, and continuous improvement in support of high-quality outcomes * You have experience using HashiCorp products (Terraform, Packer, Waypoint, Nomad, Vault, Boundary, Consul) * You have prior experience working in cloud platform engineering teams * Emerging experience in mentoring team members, helping to enhance their problem-solving, critical thinking, and planning skills ABOUT BUSINESS UNIT IBM Software infuses core business operations with intelligence-from machine learning to generative AI-to help make organizations more responsive, productive, and resilient. IBM Software helps clients put AI into action now to create real value with trust, speed, and confidence across digital labor, IT automation, application modernization, security, and sustainability. Critical to this is the ability to make use of all data, because AI is only as good as the data that fuels it. In most organizations data is spread across multiple clouds, on premises, in private datacenters, and at the edge. IBM's AI and data platform scales and accelerates the impact of AI with trusted data, and provides leading capabilities to train, tune and deploy AI across business. IBM's hybrid cloud platform is one of the most comprehensive and consistent approach to development, security, and operations across hybrid environments-a flexible foundation for leveraging data, wherever it resides, to extend AI deep into a business. 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The courage our IBMers have to make critical decisions everyday is essential to IBM becoming the catalyst for progress, always embracing challenges with resources they have to hand, a can-do attitude and always striving for an outcome focused approach within everything that they do. Are you ready to be an IBMer? ABOUT IBM IBM's greatest invention is the IBMer. We believe that through the application of intelligence, reason and science, we can improve business, society and the human condition, bringing the power of an open hybrid cloud and AI strategy to life for our clients and partners around the world. Restlessly reinventing since 1911, we are not only one of the largest corporate organizations in the world, we're also one of the biggest technology and consulting employers, with many of the Fortune 50 companies relying on the IBM Cloud to run their business. At IBM, we pride ourselves on being an early adopter of artificial intelligence, quantum computing and blockchain. 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Eligible employees may have access to: * Healthcare benefits including medical & prescription drug coverage, dental, vision, and mental health & well being * Financial programs such as 401(k), the IBM Employee Stock Purchase Plan, financial counseling, life insurance, short & long- term disability coverage, and opportunities for performance based salary incentive programs * Generous paid time off including 12 holidays, minimum 56 hours sick time, 120 hours vacation, 12 weeks parental bonding leave in accordance with IBM Policy, and other Paid Care Leave programs. 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