Principal Engineer - HashiCorp Core Data

IBM · Lowell, United States

Principal Engineer - HashiCorp Core Data

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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

• Drive Engineering and Operational Excellence: Set the standard for engineering excellence, driving best practices, architecture review processes, and operational maturity across the organization.
• Strategic Technical Influence: 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.
• Thought Leadership and 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.
• Architectural Stewardship: Shape the organization's technical direction on key technologies, architectural patterns, and client solutions, particularly in areas like reliable data lifecycle, secure orchestration, and the intelligent control plane.
• Technical Force Multiplier: Act as a critical force multiplier by actively mentoring senior engineers, delegating high-leverage work, and building a sustainable, strong peer technical network to scale organizational impact.

Preferred Education

Bachelor's Degree

Required Technical And Professional Expertise

• 15+ years of progressive experience in software engineering, including a minimum of 3 years operating in a Principal Engineer, Distinguished Engineer, or Senior Staff Engineer capacity with demonstrated influence spanning multiple teams, product lines, or organizations.
• Deep Technical Leadership: 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.
• Programming Expertise: Professional experience developing with modern programming languages and frameworks, and are interested in working in Golang. Experience in distributed systems, high-scale services, and/or data infrastructure is highly valued.
• Strategic Vision: Demonstrated experience crafting and successfully driving a multi-year technical strategy and vision that aligns with product goals and anticipates future industry needs.

Preferred Technical And Professional Experience

• Are a technical leader capable of crafting long-term strategy and vision.
• Possess strong written communication skills and thrive in an all-remote, document-based culture, leveraging both asynchronous and synchronous collaboration to effectively partner with, unblock, and guide your peers.
• Are an effective communicator, collaborator, and influencer with engineering, product and design teams.
• Are able to identify pragmatic and ideal solutions blending customer feedback with technical foresight.
• Have experience using HashiCorp products.
• Navigate ambiguity while remaining empathetic and kind.
• Eagerly take on new challenges and are driven to deliver the highest quality solution.
• Desire for continuous self-improvement and a passion for mentoring others.
• You’ve reviewed our principles and they resonate with your professional values.

Seniority level

Mid-Senior level

Employment type

Full-time

Job function

Engineering and Information Technology

Industries

IT Services and IT Consulting