Staff Engineer - Backend - Terraform Authorship

About the team

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.

About the role

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 lead large customer-facing projects and 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.

What you’ll do (responsibilities)

• 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

What you’ll need (basic qualifications)

• 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

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