Cloud Release Engineer

As a Cloud Release Engineer, you will join an existing team to focus on automating internal workflows and contributing to centralized deployment tooling for our Cloud. This team exists to make deployments within HashiCorp as boring, routine, and uneventful as possible. We enable other internal teams to focus on the work that excites them and increase their velocity. As a Cloud Release Engineer, you will collaborate with peers to build reusable components to make our software delivery tooling as awesome as possible, and work with internal teams to reduce developer toil and help with their successful execution of everyday software development. You will also work on larger engineering-wide projects that will be used by hundreds of engineers.

Interested? Come work with us! Please review the Applying section below before you submit your application.

• Helping to evolve the CD strategy for our service pipelines with a focus on reusability and scale
• Crafting smaller issues and code changes by collaborating with partners to reduce scope and focus on iteration
• Independently contribute, maintain, and add features to shared libraries and tools that many teams rely on

To give you a better sense of our current project work, we are currently rolling out and iterating on a canary deployment strategy across our cloud platforms that will enable safe and repeatable service deployments.

• Embodies our principles and puts them into action in all aspects of their work
• Believes in writing phenomenal documentation as part of writing code
• Clearly communicates both verbally and in writing to enable async work across time zones
• Proactively works closely with other teams to discover problems, capture technical requirements, and explain technical intricacies
• Desires to continually keep up with advancements in Software Engineering practices
• Has experience, empathy, and interest in developer tooling, including building scripts, tools, or services that are used by internal teams
• Has experience using both compiled languages (Go, Rust, C++) and command languages (Bash)
• Has an understanding of infrastructure management concepts and Cloud Providers (AWS, GCP, or Azure) and tooling (prior experience with HashiCorp products is a huge plus!)

• Learn about our company, products, and team.
• Have 1-1's and pairing sessions with team members you'll be working most closely with, and spend time getting to know your peers across the engineering org.
• Find opportunities for improvements within our existing CD pipelines, and in our existing tools.
• Dive into the things we've built, and learn more about Go and Bash along the way.
• Complete your first ticket by committing changes and helping perform code reviews.

• Spend time learning about and experimenting with new tools.
• Gain an understanding of the shared struggles and common-pitfalls within engineering, and work to alleviate those with better automation, tooling, and documentation.
• Begin working on your first project within a group, ship the MVP, celebrate your success, and iterate based on feedback.
• Review and comment on project proposals from other team members.
• Participate in our team's on-call rotation.

• Extensively contribute to tools and services which will enable self-service developer workflows and reduce toil.
• Collaborate with other engineering teams in an advisory fashion.
• Write and share a project proposal with the team.
• Lead a group project, and present in a lunch and learn to share your knowledge with others.

Please note we require a cover letter for your application to be considered complete. In your cover letter, describe why you're interested in working at HashiCorp, and what draws you to the Cloud Release Engineering role in particular.

We are committed to hiring and cultivating a diverse team. If you are on the fence about whether to apply, please apply anyway. We would love to hear from you.

HashiCorp welcomes all qualified candidates who have authorization to work in the United States to apply - HashiCorp will not be sponsoring visas for this role at this time.

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