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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.

Votre rôle et vos responsabilités

 

The Principal Engineer for Terraform Core Platform and Providers is a senior technical leadership position tasked with solving the most ambitious, complex technical and organizational challenges related to the foundation of Terraform's open source project and its provider ecosystem. You will act as a force multiplier, operating with an intentionally broad and flexible mandate to define and guide the evolution of the Terraform Core engine, the configuration language (HCL), the state management system, and the Provider Protocol

 

 

This role requires a blend of deep domain expertise in infrastructure-as-code (IaC) principles, highly scalable distributed systems, and the ability to define the technical standards for millions of Terraform users and thousands of integrations

 

Key Responsibilities

 

As a Principal Engineer, your engagement will be dynamic, utilizing the six roles defined in the Principal Engineer Engagement Framework (IPG). Your core responsibilities, mapped to the engagement model, include:

 

 

Role Category

 

 

Focus Area

 

 

Description

 

 

Setting Strategic Direction (Sponsor & Catalyst) 

 

 

Core Engine Strategy

 

 

Lead and own the delivery and architectural definition of major shifts in Terraform's core functionality, such as new language features, provider extensibility models, or cross-product standards. Drive new, ambiguous ideas for core performance improvements or architectural refactoring from concept to organizational buy-in.

 

 

Providing Architectural Guidance (Guide & Advisor) 

 

 

Protocol and API Design

 

 

Serve as a deep domain expert on Terraform's internals, providing sustained, ongoing architectural guidance to multiple Core and Provider teams. Produce exemplary technical artifacts and RFCs that define the future of the Provider Protocol and Terraform's interaction model.

 

 

Ensuring Execution Quality (Catcher & Participant) 

 

 

Stability and Performance

 

 

Quickly analyze and rescue troubled projects related to core stability, state management bugs, or performance regressions under tight deadlines. Actively contribute hands-on when necessary, engaging in coding, detailed design reviews, and unsticking highly complex technical blockers within the Terraform CLI.

 

Formation requise
Baccalauréat
Formation préférée
Licence
Expertise professionnelle et technique requise

  • Experience: Extensive experience in software development, architecture, and distributed systems, with a proven track record of shipping complex, large-scale projects.

  • Technical Depth: Deep expertise in systems programming (e.g., Go), compiler design or language parsing (e.g., HCL), and low-level IaC concepts, including state management and distributed consensus patterns.

  • Leadership: Demonstrated ability to lead technical strategy, mentor senior engineers, and influence product and engineering leadership across multiple teams.

  • Communication: Exceptional communication skills, capable of translating complex technical concepts into clear, strategic roadmaps for both technical and non-technical audiences.

 
Expertise professionnelle et technique préférée
  • Familiarity with HashiCorp/IBM products and services

À propos de la Business Unit

IBM Software insuffle de l'intelligence dans les opérations métier de base, de l'apprentissage automatique à l'IA générative, afin d'aider les organisations à être plus réactives, plus productives et plus résilientes. IBM Software aide ses clients à mettre l'IA en action dès maintenant pour créer une valeur réelle avec confiance, rapidité et assurance dans les domaines du travail numérique, de l'automatisation informatique, de la modernisation des applications, de la sécurité et du développement durable. La capacité d'utiliser toutes les données est essentielle à cet égard, car l'IA ne vaut que ce que valent les données qui l'alimentent. Dans la plupart des organisations, les données sont réparties entre plusieurs clouds, sur site, dans des centres de données privés et à la périphérie. La plateforme d'IA et de données d'IBM met à l'échelle et accélère l'impact de l'IA avec des données fiables, et fournit des capacités de pointe pour entraîner, régler et déployer l'IA dans l'ensemble de l'entreprise. La plateforme cloud hybride d'IBM est l'une des approches les plus complètes et les plus cohérentes en matière de développement, de sécurité et d'opérations dans les environnements hybrides : une base flexible pour exploiter les données, où qu'elles se trouvent, afin d'étendre l'IA au coeur de l'entreprise.

VOTRE VIE CHEZ 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?

À propos d'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.

Autres détails pertinents sur le poste

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.