**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** About the team 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. About the role 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. What you’ll do (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 This job can be performed from anywhere in the US **Required technical and professional expertise** * 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 **Preferred technical and professional experience** * 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 * Familiarity with HashiCorp and IBM products and services * Enjoys learning as part of a highly collaborative team * Comfortable working East Coast timezone 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.