Sr. Engineer

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

At HashiCorp, our mission is to provide infrastructure automation and security solutions that empower organizations to provision, secure, connect, and run any infrastructure for any application. HCP Packer is a modern evolution of Packer, one of HashiCorp's original open-source tools and a foundational solution in the infrastructure space for building machine images.

HCP Packer brings the power of image automation to the cloud, offering a managed experience that simplifies the lifecycle of machine image creation, versioning, governance, and consumption. With features like image ancestry tracking, version metadata management, and image revocation, HCP Packer enables platform and security teams to scale image pipelines with confidence.

The HCP Packer team is building a robust SaaS offering tightly integrated with the broader HashiCorp Cloud Platform. We empower teams to manage secure, compliant image pipelines and support evolving needs around vulnerability management, Software Bill of Materials (SBOMs), and compliance frameworks like SLSA (Supply Chain Levels for Software Artifacts).

As we modernize Packer and expand its ecosystem, we're looking for strong engineers who thrive on solving complex challenges, balancing system performance and user experience, and collaborating across functions to build secure, scalable solutions for our global customer base.

What you'll do (responsibilities)

• You will support and add new features and improvements to HCP Packer.
• Design, build, and maintain scalable APIs and distributed backend services for HCP Packer, ensuring resilience, security, and performance at scale.
• Collaborate closely with teams to build cohesive, end-to-end workflows that support artifact management, lifecycle automation, and vulnerability remediation.
• Lead or contribute to new feature development efforts, such as image ingestion pipelines, automated CVE scanning and reporting, SBOM management, and image provenance tooling.
• Write production-grade Golang code and actively participate in design reviews, code reviews, and architectural discussions.
• Contribute to the overall developer and customer experience through documentation, tooling, and thoughtful UX/API design.
• Engage in discovery and experimentation to explore new integrations, workflow patterns, and enterprise needs-publishing findings via RFCs and participating in solution validation.
• Operate and monitor production systems as part of our on-call rotation, using observability tooling to proactively identify and resolve issues.
• Help drive a culture of technical excellence, security-first development, and continuous learning within the team and across the organization.

Required education

Bachelor's Degree

Preferred education

Bachelor's Degree

Required technical and professional expertise

• You have experience running, testing, and contributing to one (or more) of the following: a frontend application (JavaScript or JavaScript frameworks, such as Ember.js, React), distributed services (Go or similar).
• Experience operating production systems in cloud environments (e.g., AWS, Google Cloud Platform, or Azure), with a strong grasp of distributed systems, performance tuning, and observability.
• You have experience working with distributed systems, particularly on a cloud provider such as AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud Platform, with a focus on scalability, resilience, and security.
• You have experience operating and maintaining production systems in a Linux and public cloud environment.
• You have a strong Software Engineering or DevOps background, with 5+ years of related experience.

Preferred technical and professional experience

• Emerging ability to direct work and influence others, with a strategic approach to problem-solving and decision-making in a collaborative environment.
• Familiarity with Packer, Terraform, or related IaC tools.
• You are familiar with infrastructure management concepts and ecosystem.
• You are familiar with secure software integration mechanisms.
• You have experience in education, customer support, or OSS community support applicable to the Terraform community.
• You are familiar with infrastructure management concepts and tools (infrastructure as code, software-defined networking, virtualization, and the tools used to operate and maintain related systems).
• Experience or interest in vulnerability management (CVEs), SBOMs, supply chain security (e.g., SLSA), and compliance automation is a strong plus.
• A growth mindset with curiosity for learning new technologies and a proactive approach to driving innovation and continuous improvement.

ABOUT BUSINESS UNIT

IBM Software infuses core business operations with intelligence-from machine learning to generative AI-to help make organizations more responsive, productive, and resilient. IBM Software helps clients put AI into action now to create real value with trust, speed, and confidence across digital labor, IT automation, application modernization, security, and sustainability. Critical to this is the ability to make use of all data, because AI is only as good as the data that fuels it. In most organizations data is spread across multiple clouds, on premises, in private datacenters, and at the edge. IBM's AI and data platform scales and accelerates the impact of AI with trusted data, and provides leading capabilities to train, tune and deploy AI across business. IBM's hybrid cloud platform is one of the most comprehensive and consistent approach to development, security, and operations across hybrid environments-a flexible foundation for leveraging data, wherever it resides, to extend AI deep into a business.

YOUR LIFE @ IBM

In a world where technology never stands still, we understand that, dedication to our clients success, innovation that matters, and trust and personal responsibility in all our relationships, lives in what we do as IBMers as we strive to be the catalyst that makes the world work better.

Being an IBMer means you'll be able to learn and develop yourself and your career, you'll be encouraged to be courageous and experiment everyday, all whilst having continuous trust and support in an environment where everyone can thrive whatever their personal or professional background.

Our IBMers are growth minded, always staying curious, open to feedback and learning new information and skills to constantly transform themselves and our company. They are trusted to provide on-going feedback to help other IBMers grow, as well as collaborate with colleagues keeping in mind a team focused approach to include different perspectives to drive exceptional outcomes for our customers. The courage our IBMers have to make critical decisions everyday is essential to IBM becoming the catalyst for progress, always embracing challenges with resources they have to hand, a can-do attitude and always striving for an outcome focused approach within everything that they do.

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ABOUT IBM

IBM's greatest invention is the IBMer. We believe that through the application of intelligence, reason and science, we can improve business, society and the human condition, bringing the power of an open hybrid cloud and AI strategy to life for our clients and partners around the world.

Restlessly reinventing since 1911, we are not only one of the largest corporate organizations in the world, we're also one of the biggest technology and consulting employers, with many of the Fortune 50 companies relying on the IBM Cloud to run their business.

At IBM, we pride ourselves on being an early adopter of artificial intelligence, quantum computing and blockchain. Now it's time for you to join us on our journey to being a responsible technology innovator and a force for good in the world.

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OTHER RELEVANT JOB DETAILS

IBM offers a competitive and comprehensive benefits program. Eligible employees may have access to:

• Healthcare benefits including medical & prescription drug coverage, dental, vision, and mental health & well being
• Financial programs such as 401(k), the IBM Employee Stock Purchase Plan, financial counseling, life insurance, short & long- term disability coverage, and opportunities for performance based salary incentive programs
• Generous paid time off including 12 holidays, minimum 56 hours sick time, 120 hours vacation, 12 weeks parental bonding leave in accordance with IBM Policy, and other Paid Care Leave programs. IBM also offers paid family leave benefits to eligible employees where required by applicable law
• Training and educational resources on our personalized, AI-driven learning platform where IBMers can grow skills and obtain industry-recognized certifications to achieve their career goals
• Diverse and inclusive employee resource groups, giving & volunteer opportunities, and discounts on retail products, services & experiences

We consider qualified applicants with criminal histories, consistent with applicable law.

This position was posted on the date cited in the key job details section and is anticipated to remain posted for 21 days from this date or less if not needed to fill the role.