Cloud Release Engineer - Hashicorp

Cloud Release Engineer

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.

As a Cloud Release Engineer, you will join an existing team to focus on automating internal workflows and contributing to centralized build and deployment pipelines for our Cloud offerings. 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.

Some of the challenges you'll work on include:

• Supporting deployment tooling across multiple platforms, including IBM's MCSP
• 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
• Improving, managing, and guiding our standards for code maintainability and reusability in code reviews and submissions
• 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 single-click rollback initiative across our cloud platforms that will enable teams to quickly get their services back into a stable state.

Within 1 month, you'll 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.

Within 3 months, you'll 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.

Within 6 months, you'll extensively contribute to tools and services to 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.

Required technical and professional expertise:

• 5 years experience with developer tooling, including building scripts, tools, or services that are frequently used by internal teams
• Experience using both compiled languages (Go, Rust, C++) and command languages (Bash)
• Experience building reusable CD pipelines for Cloud offerings
• Has a detailed understanding of infrastructure management concepts, ecosystems, and tooling
• 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

Preferred technical and professional experience:

• Prior experience with HashiCorp tooling

IBM is committed to creating a diverse environment and is proud to be an equal-opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, caste, genetics, pregnancy, disability, neurodivergence, age, veteran status, or other characteristics. IBM is also committed to compliance with all fair employment practices regarding citizenship and immigration status.