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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.

Su función y responsabilidades

About the team - Engineering at HashiCorp

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 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 the Infrastructure 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 come join us in developing the Infrastructure Cloud!

 

Senior Software Engineer, Packer 

What You’ll Do (Responsibilities)

  • Lead the design, prototyping, and implementation of complex features, components, and tools that advance Packer’s core capabilities and integrations.
  • Architect scalable and maintainable solutions for image workflows across heterogeneous cloud and on-premises environments, working in close partnership with product, security, and SRE teams.
  • Champion technical quality: Set and uphold best practices for code quality, architecture, testing, and reliability across the team.
  • Provide technical leadership and mentorship—coach engineers at all levels, conduct technical reviews, and drive key design and architectural decisions.
  • Drive cross-functional collaboration, engaging with Product, UX, SRE, Documentation, and Support teams to ensure a cohesive and intuitive user experience for both open source and enterprise customers.
  • Take ownership of critical production issues, incident response, and architectural improvements, helping the team anticipate obstacles and improve engineering processes.
  • Represent the team in engineering forums and cross-product initiatives, advocating for improvements in platform integration, security, and developer experience.
  • Contribute to the technical strategy and roadmap for Packer within IBM’s Infrastructure Cloud vision, identifying opportunities to innovate and differentiating IBM in the marketplace.
  • Mentor junior and mid-level engineers, fostering a culture of continuous learning, psychological safety, and technical excellence.
Educación requerida
Licenciatura
Educación preferida
Maestría
Experiencia profesional y técnica requerida
  • Minimum 7+ years of professional software engineering experience with progressive technical leadership responsibilities.
  • Proficiency in Go and Python with substantial, production-grade experience in both languages.
  • Extensive experience designing and building distributed systems and cloud-native infrastructure solutions, with strong focus on resiliency, security, and scalability.
  • Deep understanding of Infrastructure as Code (IaC), configuration management, and immutable infrastructure concepts.
  • Demonstrated experience architecting and delivering production-grade features in collaborative, cross-functional engineering teams.
  • Proficiency in DevOps best practices, CI/CD pipelines, and automated testing strategies.
  • Experience debugging and optimizing complex distributed systems and cloud APIs.
  • HashiCorp product experience required, especially with Packer; strong familiarity with Terraform, Nomad, or Vault is a plus.
  • Proven record of mentorship, code reviews, and leading technical projects to successful completion.
  • Strong communicator who builds trust, aligns stakeholders, and fosters an inclusive, high-performing team environment.
Experiencia técnica y profesional preferida
  • Prior experience leading or contributing to large open source projects.
  • Expertise in multi-cloud infrastructure, automation, and containerization frameworks.
  • Experience developing and scaling enterprise SaaS platforms.
  • Contributions to the HashiCorp ecosystem at the community or core contributor level.
  • Experience working with external partners and customers to deliver platform integrations and SDKs.
  • Emerging or established presence as a speaker, author, or thought leader in the cloud infrastructure domain.

Acerca de la Unidad de Negocios

IBM Software es la unidad de negocio que infunsiona inteligencia en las operaciones comerciales, desde el aprendizaje automático hasta la IA generativa, para ayudar a que las organizaciones sean más receptivas, productivas y resilientes. IBM Software ayuda a los clientes a poner la IA en acción ahora para crear valor real con confianza, velocidad y confianza en el trabajo digital, la automatización de TI, la modernización de aplicaciones, la seguridad y la sostenibilidad. Para lograrlo, es esencial aprovechar al máximo todos los datos disponibles, ya que la calidad y eficacia de la inteligencia artificial dependen directamente de los datos que la sustentan. En la mayoría de las organizaciones, los datos se distribuyen en múltiples nubes, en las instalaciones, en centros de datos privados y en el borde.La plataforma de datos e inteligencia artificial de IBM potencia y amplifica el impacto de la IA a través de datos confiables, ofreciendo capacidades avanzadas para entrenar, ajustar y desplegar inteligencia artificial a escala empresarial. Por su parte, la plataforma de nube híbrida de IBM se destaca como una de las soluciones más completas y consistentes, integrando desarrollo, seguridad y operaciones en entornos híbridos. Esta base flexible permite aprovechar los datos, sin importar dónde se encuentren, e incorporar la inteligencia artificial de manera profunda y estratégica en toda la organización.

SU VIDA @ 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?

Acerca de 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.

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