Senior Engineer - HashiCorp Core Data/Infragraph

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

We’re looking for Senior Engineers with a focus in backend development and distributed systems. You’ll join teams building a new resource graph system to model, connect and query infrastructure resources, applications, services, and ownership.

These teams ensure that all data flowing into the graph is reliably ingested and efficiently queryable. They own the data ingestion pipeline, ETL and normalization logic, indexing, query performance, and the underlying graph database implementation.

In This Role, You Will

• Design, build, and debug distributed systems written in Golang.
• Own large projects end-to-end: from design→implementation→deployment→production support.
• Work on various parts of our systems, from cloud provider connectors and developer-facing APIs/SDKs to the graph ingestion pipelines and query optimization.
• Collaborate on a cross-functional team including Engineering, Product, and Design to deliver compelling customer experiences.
• Onboard, mentor, and guide the work of fellow software engineers, sharing your technical knowledge and promoting best practices.
• Participate in an on call rotation to ensure we support our customers and staff members when they need it most.
• Foster diversity, inclusion, and equity within your team.
  

Preferred Education

Bachelor's Degree

Required Technical And Professional Expertise

• 5 years of professional experience as a software engineer
• A cloud-native mindset informed by work with highly-available distributed systems hosted on major cloud providers such as AWS, Azure or GCP
• Familiarity using cloud monitoring tools and observability practices that prioritize
• metrics, logging and tracing to maintain high reliability and performance
• A solid understanding of DevOps principles and best practices for scalability, resilience, and security
• Interest in working in Golang
• A commitment to quality through maintainable code and comprehensive testing from development to deployment
• Familiarity with collaboration practices such as asynchronous communication, pair programming, group troubleshooting, etc.
• Demonstrated business acumen and customer focus
• A readiness for change and adaptability in dynamic situations
  

Preferred Technical And Professional Experience

• Graph databases (e.g., Neptune, Neo4j, Dgraph) or graph data modeling
• Public-facing APIs, REST/GraphQL APIs, or developer SDKs
• Experience with data-intensive applications, pub/sub systems (Google pub/sub, AWS
• SQS), event-driven systems, ETL pipelines, data modeling, or large-scale data processing
• HashiCorp products (Terraform or Vault in particular)