Senior Software Engineer - HashiCorp Secure Products

IBM
IBM

Software Engineering

California, USA · Tokyo, Japan · Texas City, TX, USA

Posted on Jun 17, 2026
Introduction

At IBM Software, we transform client challenges into solutions. Building the world’s leading AI-powered, cloud-native products that shape the future of business and society. Our legacy of innovation creates endless opportunities for IBMers to learn, grow, and make an impact on a global scale. Working in Software means joining a team fueled by curiosity and collaboration. You’ll work with diverse technologies, partners, and industries to design, develop, and deliver solutions that power digital transformation. With a culture that values innovation, growth, and continuous learning, IBM Software places you at the heart of IBM’s product and technology landscape. Here, you’ll have the tools and opportunities to advance your career while creating software that changes the world.

Your role and responsibilities

IBM Software, we transform client challenges into solutions. Building the world’s leading AI-powered, cloud-native products that shape the future of business and society. Our legacy of innovation creates endless opportunities for IBMers to learn, grow, and make an impact on a global scale. Working in Software means joining a team fueled by curiosity and collaboration. You’ll work with diverse technologies, partners, and industries to design, develop, and deliver solutions that power digital transformation. With a culture that values innovation, growth, and continuous learning, IBM Software places you at the heart of IBM’s product and technology landscape. Here, you’ll have the tools and opportunities to advance your career while creating software that changes the world.

We’re looking for Senior Engineers with a deep backend focus to join our team. In this role, you can expect to:

  • Lead the design, prototyping, and implementation of multi-phase features and tools with a high business impact, ensuring stability and usability

  • Collaborate closely with Product Design, Product Management, and cross-functional engineering teams to align on priorities and technical solutions

  • Act as a subject matter expert in Golang development and quality standards, influencing internal teams and the external community

  • Assess and break down large projects across multiple teams, evaluating tradeoffs to maintain project momentum and alignment

  • Spot potential technical issues before they happen. Recommend improvements to maintain quality, efficiency, and productivity

  • Stay current on industry trends and best practices, advancing their adoption within the team and across the organization

  • Advocate for technical roadmaps that enhance organizational performance, and participate in system-wide debugging, maintenance, and production support

  • Mentor team members

This professional is also expected to:

Security & Cryptography

  • Expert understanding of symmetric and asymmetric encryption, certificate management, key management, PKI, and TLS

  • Proficiency in security best practices and secure coding principles

Distributed Systems & Infrastructure

  • Deep understanding of consensus algorithms (e.g., Raft)

  • Strong experience working in large distributed micro services architectures

  • Experience with testing distributed services

  • Hands-on experience implementing distributed applications in container environments (Kubernetes/OpenShift)

  • Considerable experience configuring and administrating Linux/UNIX systems

  • Familiarity with cloud infrastructure (AWS/Azure/GCP)

Dev Ops & CI/CD

  • Expert understanding of CI/CD, Dev Ops, automated testing, and supporting release engineering initiatives

  • Experience building and maintaining robust CI pipelines (GitHub Actions preferred)

  • Ability to identify areas of improvement and automation opportunities

Code Quality & Maintenance

  • Skilled in conducting code reviews and providing constructive feedback

  • Responsible for ensuring code quality and maintaining high standards

  • Ability to manage technical debt and ensure maintainability of code bases

  • Expertise in performance optimization and scalability of complex systems

  • Strong coding practices including test-driven development (TDD), code reviews, refactoring, and adherence to Go best practices and idioms

AI & Machine Learning

  • Proficiency with AI coding assistants (Bob, GitHub, Copilot, etc.) to accelerate development while maintaining code quality

  • Ability to leverage AI tools for code analysis, bug detection, and security vulnerability identification

  • Skill in crafting effective prompts to utilize LLMs for problem-solving, documentation generation, and technical research

  • Ability to critically evaluate AI-generated code and suggestions, understanding when to accept, modify, or reject recommendations

  • Leverage AI tools to create intelligent automation solutions and improve existing automated workflows

Leadership & Collaboration

  • Demonstrated experience leading a team of junior developers and driving technical delivery
  • Expected to make strategic technical decisions and provide architectural guidance
  • Expected to foster innovation and continuous improvement in the team
  • Excellent communication, analytical, cross-functional collaboration, and stakeholder management skills

Problem-Solving & Adaptability

  • Demonstrated problem-solving and analytical skills

  • Ability to quickly learn new technologies and implement prototypes in a timely fashion

Required education
High School Diploma/GED
Preferred education
Bachelor's Degree
Required technical and professional expertise

  • 11+ years industry experience with proven deep knowledge of Go/Java/C/C++ (Go preferred)
  • Experience with asynchronous programming and concurrency models in Go
  • Strong understanding of software design patterns across various operating systems (Linux, macOS, Windows)
  • Strong knowledge of data structures, data modeling, and API design
  • Solid knowledge of REST and gRPC protocols

Preferred technical and professional experience

· Familiarity with virtualization (KVM/QEMU/libvirt a plus).

· Certified Kubernetes Application Developer (CKAD) preferred.

· Understanding security and compliance issues.

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.

Are you ready to be an IBMer?

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 500 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.

IBM 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, genetics, pregnancy, disability, neurodivergence, age, or other characteristics protected by the applicable law. IBM is also committed to compliance with all fair employment practices regarding citizenship and immigration status.

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), cash balance pension plan, 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.

IBM will not be providing visa sponsorship for this position now or in the future. Therefore, in order to be considered for this position, you must have the ability to work without a need for current or future visa sponsorship.

The compensation range and benefits for this position are based on a full-time schedule for a full calendar year. The salary will vary depending on your job-related skills, experience and location. Pay increment and frequency of pay will be in accordance with employment classification and applicable laws. For part time roles, your compensation and benefits will be adjusted to reflect your hours. Benefits may be pro-rated for those who start working during the calendar year.

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