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.

Your role and responsibilities

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

This job can be performed from anywhere in the US

Required education

High School Diploma/GED

Preferred education

Bachelor's Degree

Required technical and professional expertise

2 years of software engineering management experience
Demonstrated communication skills, including written communication 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.

Preferred technical and professional experience

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.

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.

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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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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 50 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.

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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), 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.

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