Software Engineer II - Operational Readiness (Disaster Recovery) (Hybrid)

As a Software Engineer for the Operational Readiness team, you will play a critical role in enhancing the reliability DR governance of HashiCorp's cloud products. With at least 3 years of experience in reliability engineering or systems engineering or System Testing or related field, you will lead efforts to identify, address, and mitigate operational challenges before they impact our customers. Your expertise in system testing, and understanding disaster recovery strategies will ensure that our services meet the highest standards of reliability and help achieve operational excellence across our cloud products.

You will play a pivotal role in enhancing our operational resilience and maintaining the reliability of our enterprise and cloud-based products. With a focus on DR and overall Quality you will be at the forefront of ensuring high availability and compliance of DR standards across HashiCorp’s offerings.

You will provide expert execution of the DR test plans, You will be working on a wide variety of tools and exploring new avenues to ensure all the products meet the essential Operational readiness criteria. 

 

• Implement best practices for system reliability and disaster recovery, including proactive identification of potential failure points and the development of automated mitigations.
• Design and execute comprehensive DR testing strategies to identify bottlenecks and failure points that affect RPO and RTO across our cloud products.
• Drive initiatives around DR compliance and Implement best practices and technologies to improve system resilience, ensuring high availability and fault tolerance through Chaos testing framework.
• Work closely with engineering and product teams to integrate operational readiness into the development lifecycle, enhancing product stability and user satisfaction.
• Build and refine tools and frameworks for automated testing, environment simulation, and incident reproduction, reducing manual effort and increasing test coverage.
• Conduct mock drills and drive chaos tests in collaboration with partner teams, analyzing test results, documenting findings and making actionable recommendations for systemic improvements
• Share your knowledge and expertise with team members, fostering a culture of learning and continuous improvement.

 

• 3+ years of experience in reliability engineering, systems engineering, or non functional testing roles with a focus on Disaster recovery or backup and recovery of Cloud based systems.
• Having commitment to explore career opportunity in Site Reliability Engineering field
• Proficient in Golang programming language or any other scripting language (golang preferred) 
• Hands on experience with version control systems such as git , gitlab 
• Understands micro services architecture
• Good understanding of CI/CD process and maintaining quality pipelines
• Exposure to cloud technologies ( AWS, Azure, Or GCP) and container technologies like Nomad or Kubernetes.
• Effective communication and collaboration skills, capable of working with cross-functional teams and articulating technical concepts to diverse audiences.

Nice to Have:

• Exposure to disaster recovery domain or worked on any product testing for DR is a plus 
• Experience with infrastructure as code (Terraform, CloudFormation) is a plus.
• Chaos testing experience is a plus
• Understanding of compliance frameworks like ISO/IEC 27031, ISO 22301, SOC2 is a Plus #LI-Hybrid