Manager, Engineering - Vault Foundations

About the team

We're looking for an engineering manager to join the Vault team. Vault is one of HashiCorp's most successful product offerings, supporting secrets lifecycle management for companies of all sizes around the world, including many Fortune 500 companies.

This role will support the team building the original self-managed version of Vault, which customers deploy onto their own infrastructure to manage their API keys, certificates, and more. This is primarily a people management role with limited hands-on coding opportunities.

The product is available to users for free as Vault Community Edition, but our team is also focused on delivering maximum value for large-scale enterprise organizations with the paid Vault Enterprise version. We're looking for an engineering manager who can help us in our journey to differentiate Vault Enterprise with even more distinctive and valuable features.

As HashiCorp looks to further Vault's enterprise-ready capabilities, it is essential that we focus our engineering efforts on delivering scalable, highly reliable, secure, and user-friendly software. Engineering managers are part of that goal, by helping the team stay focused on the right things, while also maintaining a positive and collaborative working environment.

What you'll do...

• Support the career growth and morale of a team of skilled software engineers at varying skill levels, through setting goals, mentoring, and providing feedback
• Collaborate with Product and Design counterparts to scope and assess feasibility of initiatives
• Ensure larger efforts are broken down into achievable milestones
• Effectively triage incoming work requests from a variety of internal and external sources, ensuring the work most aligned with the team’s objectives is handled
• Improve processes to boost the team's productivity and reduce regressions in each Vault release
• Provide occasional on-call coordination support for customer incidents
• Continue to grow the team with kind, collaborative, and skilled engineers

What you'll need...

• 2 years of software engineering management experience
• Strong communication skills, including written communication is required as HashiCorp is a fully remote company with a lot of asynchronous collaboration. 
• A successful track record of facilitating the growth and learning of others. 
• Enough technical knowledge to take in highly complex, deeply technical distributed systems concepts and relay them to stakeholders in a comprehensible way.
• Has experience writing software tests and breaking down large projects into small milestones.

What's nice to have...

• A cover letter without AI assistance is highly preferred.
• Experience with security, infrastructure, and/or secrets management tooling, to understand the needs of our users.
• Experience working with large codebases for distributed systems.
• Experience improving the user experience of a complex system.
• Experience in the B2B enterprise software space.
• Experience working in and improving a legacy codebase.
• Eastern Time Zone location is highly preferred to support team members in Europe.

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