Sr. Site Reliability Engineer - DBRE

About the position

The HashiCorp DBRE team is responsible for maintaining and improving the reliability of HashiCorp’s databases across our cloud products, using a software-engineering-based approach (as is typical of SRE teams here). Our focus is on making it easy for teams to use databases safely. This team will involve a mixture of database engineering, product engineering practices and SRE-like engagement with cloud engineering teams. This engineering role is on a nascent, growing engineering team. The team is responsible for products that touch many areas of engineering organizations at HashiCorp, so applicants will need to thrive in collaborative environments, have product-focused mindsets, and be comfortable iterating in an agile manner towards solutions. This is an individual contributor role.

Responsibilities

• Be responsible for and drive operational excellence with databases
• Deliver elegant, user-focused solutions that address reliability challenges for databases
• Lead engineers in technical discussions supporting their development goals while guiding them using database best practices
• Build technical skills and relationships within a team of engineers and SREs

Requirements

• 5+ years of professional backend software development experience in cloud environments.
• Experienced in working closely with relational databases (Postgres required)
• Experience and comfortability programming in modern programming languages
• Enjoy working on a variety of scopes spanning software engineering, operations, and DBRE.
• Worked to operationalize complex software at scale.
• Worked on infrastructure teams in customer-centric and agile organizations with empathy and compassion.
• Worked with SaaS or another type of managed software offering.
• Expertise in one or more of the major public clouds.
• Work well in a high trust environment.
• Enjoys learning as part of a highly collaborative team.

Benefits

• Base pay range for this role in the SF Bay Area / NYC area is: $176,500—$207,600 USD
• Base pay range for this role in California (excluding SF Bay Area), New York (excluding NYC), Seattle Metro, Denver / Boulder Metro, Washington D.C., or Maryland is: $161,800—$190,300 USD
• Base pay range for this role in Colorado (excluding Denver / Boulder Metro), Illinois, Minnesota, or Washington (excluding Seattle Metro) is: $147,100—$173,000 USD