Senior Software Engineer, Product Engineering; Boundary - HashiCorp

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 Hashi Corp'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.

We build Boundary, a secure access management solution built for hybrid environments. Boundary allows organizations of all sizes the ability to access infrastructure and applications with fine grained security controls and auditing. Boundary is a young product in the Hashi Corp Security line, and we’re looking for great engineers with interest in security and cloud automation to come join our growing team.

You will help design, prototype, and implement core features while ensuring the scalability and stability of Boundary. Given our product stage, Boundary’s development area is broad and deep. We’re working to develop everything from a plugin system to allow seamless community contributions and extensions of Boundary’s core features, to the implementation of cryptographic sub-systems that will allow secure recording and playback of sessions taking place over many different types of network protocols.

In this role, you can expect to:

• Develop, advocate for, and support new and existing features for the Boundary product
• Provide code review, mentorship, and support to Hashi Corp employees, community members, and partners
• Work on issues and improvements critical to the success of Hashi Corp customers and the broader community
• Participate in architecture decisions and technical design reviews
• Optimize performance and scalability of Boundary management workflows
• Participate in on-call duty rotation to keep the service availability 99.9% or above
• Work in our tech stack:
  Go, gRPC, Protobuf, gRPC-Gateway, and PostgreSQL

• 5+ years of experience
• Strong proficiency in Golang programming language
• Working understanding of privileged access management and protocols such as SSH and RDP
• Experience working with distributed cloud systems
• Experience building automated tests that validate feature functionality and integration
• Experience in designing and implementing resilient systems that can horizontally and vertically scale

• Nice to have experience using Vault or Boundary

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.