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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.

Sua Função e suas Responsabilidades

 

Team: Infrastructure Product Group Engineering (AKA Infrastructure Lifecycle management Eng)

 

Role Summary

 

We are seeking a Principal Engineer to lead the technical strategy for two critical initiatives that will define the future of Terraform: Agentic Resource Management and Accelerated Terraform Providers.

 

 

In this high-leverage role, you will architect the "connective tissue" that allows AI agents to orchestrate the Terraform golden workflow—driving usage, retention, and commercial differentiation. You will look beyond simple code generation to build systems where agents can actively manage resources, automate provider updates, and remediate infrastructure incidents

 

 

As a Principal Engineer at HashiCorp, you will operate as a force multiplier. You will not just build features but will act as a Sponsor for strategic programs, a Catalyst for experimental agentic workflows, and a Guide for the engineering team delivering these capabilities.

 

Team Overview

 

You will be the technical anchor for a team dedicated to accelerating AI workflows within IPG Org. This team is tasked to deliver impactful, commercially relevant features.

 

 

The team’s dual mandate is:

 

  1. Agentic Resource Management: Enabling partners (via Integrations SDK) and AI agents (via MCP Server) to orchestrate Terraform runs, plan analysis, and error remediation

  2. Accelerated Terraform Providers: Building automation into the provider ecosystem to rapidly expand coverage for new Terraform features like Search & Actions

Key Responsibilities

 

Using HashiCorp’s Principal Engineer Engagement Framework, you will adopt dynamic roles to ensure the success of these initiatives:

 

  • As a Sponsor (Strategic Leadership):

    • Drive the Agentic Resource Management Program: Lead the technical strategy for enabling "Code-to-Cloud" workflows where agents can fully manage the Infrastructure Lifecycle Management (ILM) workflow

    • Define the "Golden Workflow" for Agents: Architect how AI agents interact with Terraform Core and HCP Terraform.

    • Ensure Commercial Alignment: Oversee the delivery of commercial MCP features, ensuring they align with strategic pillars like "Realize Customer Value" and "Drive Commercial Differentiation"

  • As a Catalyst (Innovation Driver):

    • Prototype "Accelerated Provider" Agents: Build the initial proofs-of-concept for agents that can automatically key capabilities to support existing Terraform Providers (AWS, Azure, Google, OCI etc).

    • Kickstart Patch Management Workflows: creating the first "GitOps remediation" workflows where agents detect drift or errors and automatically generate patch pull requests

    • Validate Upgrade Assistants: Lead the technical exploration of AI-driven Terraform Version and Module upgrades to unburden customers from maintenance toil.

  • As a Guide (Technical Authority):

    • Architect the Commercial MCP Server: Provide deep oversight for the Terraform Model Context Protocol (MCP) server, ensuring it supports complex use cases like remote execution, account onboarding, and operational insights.

    • Mentor the Team: Guide the engineers on the team through the complexities of building reliable "Plan Analyzers" and "Error Analyzers" that customers can trust

    • Standardize Agent Patterns: Define the patterns for how our tools expose Prompts, Resources, and Tools to ecosystem partners like Azure Copilot, Amazon Q, and GitHub Copilot etc.

Formação requerida
Diploma do ensino médio/DEEM
Formação preferencial
Bacharelado
Experiência Profissional e Técnica Requerida

  • Principal-Level Leadership: Ability to navigate ambiguity and switch contexts between high-level strategy (Sponsor) and hands-on prototyping (Catalyst)

  • AI & Agentic Architecture: Experience designing systems where AI agents act as autonomous operators (planning, applying, remediating) rather than just chat assistants

  • Deep Terraform Ecosystem Knowledge: Understanding of the Terraform Provider SDK and internal architecture is critical for the "Accelerated Providers" initiative

  • Standards & Protocols: Familiarity with the Model Context Protocol (MCP) and experience building tool-use interfaces for LLMs

  • Strategic Communication: Capable of authoring RFCs and influencing cross-functional stakeholders to secure alignment on AI strategies.

 
Experiência Profissional e Técnica Preferencial

  • Familiarity with HashiCorp/IBM Products and Services 

Sobre a Unidade de Negócios

Do aprendizado de máquina à IA generativa, o software IBM injeta inteligência nas principais operações de negócios para tornar as empresas mais responsivas, produtivas e resilientes. O software IBM ajuda os clientes a colocar a IA em ação para agregar valor real, de forma rápida e segura, à mão de obra digital, automação de TI, modernização de aplicação, segurança e sustentabilidade. Para isso, a capacidade de usar todos os dados é fundamental, porque a IA somente será boa se os dados que a alimentam também forem. Na maioria das empresas há dados locais, dados espalhados por diversas nuvens, dados em data centers privados e na borda. A plataforma de dados e IA da IBM escala e acelera o impacto da IA com dados confiáveis, além de fornecer recursos de ponta para treinar, ajustar e implementar a IA nos negócios. A plataforma de nuvem híbrida da IBM é uma das abordagens mais abrangentes e consistentes ao desenvolvimento, segurança e operações em ambientes híbridos, atuando como uma base flexível que utiliza os dados, onde quer que estejam, para estender amplamente a IA sobre os negócios.

SEU 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.

 

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Sobre a 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.

Outros detalhes relevantes do cargo

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.