**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. **Your role and responsibilities** About the team The Terraform Infrastructure Lifecycle team owns a range of core features in HCP Terraform, including Explorer, Drift Detection, Continuous Validation, Ephemeral Workspaces, and Cost Estimation. Presently, the team is heavily focused on expanding and improving upon Explorer, with the goal of giving customers deeper visibility and insight into their organization's infrastructure. In this role, you'll be diving into Explorer projects with the rest of the team, solving problems around searchability, scaling, and potential integrations between Explorer and the rest of the HCP environment. You'll also be tasked with upkeep and maintenance of our other features listed above. A particular challenge we face is ensuring that our solutions work for both our SaaS customers and within the unique constraints of our on-prem, TFE, customers. Our features tend to be in high demand with customers and often include greenfield work and collaboration across teams. As such, we need team members capable of considerate, data-driven decision-making, and collaborative communication. What you’ll do (responsibilities) * Collaborate with the team to deliver on roadmap projects, refining tickets, writing and reviewing code, pairing, and keeping a regular cadence of communication and updates for stakeholders. * Join the on-call rotation for the team (only after sufficient onboarding). * Contribute to instrumentation and visibility into customer usage and product health. * Strive for quality through maintainable code and comprehensive testing from development to deployment. * Conduct solution discovery as it relates to our owned features. * Identify options to both technical and business challenges, conducting experimentation of Proof of Concepts and capturing findings in written form (RFCs) to be shared with cross-functional and strategic partner teams. **Required technical and professional expertise** * You have experience running, testing, and contributing to one (or more) of the following: a backend application (e.g., Ruby on Rails, Django, Express.js), a frontend application (e.g., JavaScript or JavaScript frameworks, such as Ember.js, React), distributed services (e.g., Go, Java). * You have experience working with distributed systems, particularly on a cloud provider such as AWS, Azure, or GCP, with a focus on scalability, resilience, and security. * Emerging ability to direct work and influence others, with a strategic approach to problem-solving and decision-making in a collaborative environment. * You have experience operating and maintaining production systems in a Linux and public cloud environment. * You have a strong Software Engineering or DevOps background, with 5+ years of related experience. * You are familiar with Terraform. * You are familiar with infrastructure management concepts and ecosystem. * You are familiar with secure software integration mechanisms. * You are familiar with infrastructure management concepts and tools (infrastructure as code, software-defined networking, virtualization, and the tools used to operate and maintain related systems). IBM is committed to creating a diverse environment and 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, caste, genetics, pregnancy, disability, neurodivergence, age, veteran status, or other characteristics. IBM is also committed to compliance with all fair employment practices regarding citizenship and immigration status.