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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

On the HashiCorp engineering team, we build the Infrastructure Cloud which allows enterprises to take a unified approach to Infrastructure and Security Lifecycle Management:

Infrastructure Lifecycle Management: Build / Deploy / Manage

• Terraform allows you to use infrastructure as code to provision and manage any infrastructure across your organization.
  

• Packer standardizes image workflows across cloud providers, allowing teams to build, govern and manage any image for any cloud.
  

• Waypoint makes infrastructure easily accessible at scale, enabling platform teams to deliver golden patterns and workflows with an internal developer platform.
  

• Nomad brings modern application scheduling to any type of software, allowing you to manage containers, binaries and VMs efficiently in the cloud, on-premises and across edge environments.
  

Security Lifecycle Management: Protect / Inspect / Connect

• Vault Radar is an automated security product that continuously detects and identifies unmanaged secrets, and personally identifiable information (PII) within code to help teams remediate risks.
  

• Vault provides organizations with identity-based security to automatically authenticate and authorize access to secrets and other sensitive data.
  

• Boundary standardizes secure remote access across dynamic environments, allowing organizations to connect users and manage access with identity-based security controls.
  

• Consul standardizes service networking, allowing you to discover and securely connect any service across any runtime with identity-based service networking.
  

We deliver theInfrastructure Cloud through an enterprise-grade unified SaaS platform, HCP, as well as to enterprises through self-managed/on-premises options.

Across product engineering and platform engineering teams, we are looking for great engineers to join us in developing the Infrastructure Cloud!

What you Will do

We're looking for Mid-Level Engineers with a deep backend focus to join our team. In this role, you can expect to:

• Design, prototype and implement features and tools while ensuring stability and usability.
  

• Collaborate closely with Product Design and Product Management partners, as well as engineers on your team and others.
  

• Follow through on assigned tasks to build and ship medium-sized features, managing task expectations as needed.
  

• Engage in team discussions around diagnosis, planning, and workflow improvements based on product requirements.
  

• Apply independent judgment within team practices to determine appropriate actions and solutions.
  

• Address unforeseen challenges, making recommendations to keep tasks on track.
  

• Debug and resolve medium-level bugs in products or solutions to maintain quality.
  

• Review technical contributions for quality and consistency, collaborating with stakeholders to resolve issues and recommend technical or architectural changes.
  

• Suggest improvements to current processes and propose solutions to enhance the efficiency of architectural components and design.
  

• Participate in on-call rotations, pairing, and team planning to support product needs.
  

• Engage in team discussions around diagnosis, planning, and workflow improvements based on product requirements.
  

Required education

High School Diploma/GED

Preferred education

Bachelor's Degree

Required technical and professional expertise

• You have experience as an engineer working in Golang.

• You have professional experience developing with modern programming languages and frameworks.

• You have experience working with distributed systems, particularly cloud providers such as AWS, Azure, or GCP, with a focus on scalability, resilience, and security.

• Experience in reviewing & refactoring code & making suggestions that improve the codebase and product.

• Writing tests that cover complex and edge cases.

• Demonstrated ability to build trust and foster relationships across teams and stakeholders, with a focus on valuing diverse perspectives and proficiently managing expectations.

• Cloud-native mindset and solid understanding of DevOps principles in a cloud environment.

• Proven decision-making abilities with an intentional, data-driven approach to solving complex technical challenges and delivering results.

• Strong customer focus and systems-thinking mindset, with a commitment to personal accountability, self-awareness, and continuous improvement in support of high-quality outcomes.

Preferred technical and professional experience

• You have experience using HashiCorp products (Terraform, Packer, Waypoint, Nomad, Vault, Boundary, Consul).
• You have prior experience working in cloud platform engineering teams.
• Emerging experience in mentoring team members, helping to enhance their problem-solving, critical thinking, and planning skills.

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.

Job Title

Software Engineer II, (Boundary) HashiCorp

Date posted

07-May-2026

Job ID

112168

City / Township / Village

POUGHKEEPSIE, LOWELL, ROCHESTER, TUCSON, RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, Armonk, Bellevue, Atlanta, San Jose, Dallas, Austin, Seattle

State / Province

Georgia, Minnesota, Texas, New York, North Carolina, Arizona, Washington, Massachusetts, California

Country

United States

Work arrangement

Hybrid

Area of work

Software Engineering

Employment type

Regular

Contract type

Regular

Projected Minimum Salary per year

111,000.00

Projected Maximum Salary per year

207,000.00

Position type

Professional

Travel required

No Travel

Company

(0147) International Business Machines Corporation

Shift

General (daytime)

Is this role a commissionable/sales incentive based position?

No



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