Engineer II - Frontend - HashiCorp Vault

About the team

We are looking for a Front End Engineer to join the Vault team. The Vault team is responsible for Vault Community Edition and Vault Enterprise. As a Front End Developer you will help design, prototype, and implement UI features in Ember.js in order to make Vault easier to manage and to understand. We use best practices and state of the art cryptography to allow customers to securely store and manage their secrets. Vault integrates with cloud services, databases, infrastructure tools such as Terraform, a plethora of authentication and authorization engines, orchestration tools like Kubernetes, and other HashiCorp technologies towards our goal to provide a first-class user interface to support our customers’ workflows. 

We operate autonomously in a highly collaborative, remote-first environment. Anchored by kindness, communication, and humility, we provide the Vault Community and Vault Enterprise customers the ability to interact with their own systems and tools, and extend Vault’s capabilities to suit their needs.

With the support of your teammates, Product Management & Design, Manager, and Front End Developers across the organization you’ll grow your breadth and depth of knowledge to reach the next level in your career.

This person will be a part of the Vault engineering team at HashiCorp, working to provide a fantastic and broadly used secrets tool for businesses and individuals handling all sizes and types of infrastructure.

You can learn more about the Vault product with our Co-Founder & CTO by watching this video here: Introduction to HashiCorp Vault with Armon Dadgar

What you’ll do (responsibilities)

• Work with the design team to define and improve Vault’s workflows and interfaces built on Ember.js
• Collaborate with the Vault teams providing feedback in order to best improve and leverage our backend interfaces.
• Collaborate with other HashiCorp teams to maintain a consistent user experience across all HashiCorp products.
• Help the open source community with our Vault Community Edition sustaining rotation, reviewing the community’s pull requests and feature requests, and addressing issues.
• Give demos of new features and workflows. 
• Maintain a very high standard for quality and security, and keep Vault customers’ trust.
• Learn and adhere to best practices, and make suggestions for improvements, including reviewing and contributing to RFCs.

 

What you’ll need (minimum qualifications)

• 2+ years of experience and facility with front end frameworks such as Ember.js (preferred), React, or Angular.
• Experience writing automated unit, integration, and functional tests.
• Source code control best practices using Github or other similar tools.
• Communicate clearly while remaining empathetic and kind.
• Have an eagerness to learn through humility and reflection.
• A willingness to advocate for clean code, refactoring when needed, and understanding tradeoffs.

What's nice to have (preferred qualifications)

• Ember.js experience.
• Understanding of best practices in secrets management.
• Experience with authentication and authorization workflows.
• Comfortable working in Linux shells.
• Be familiar with web accessibility standards and inclusive design principles.
• Familiarity in deploying a service various environments: Cloud services (AWS, GCP, Azure), VMs, and locally.
• Familiarity with Vault, and other Hashicorp products (such as Terraform or Boundary).
• Comfort with collaborating with backend teams.
• Familiarity with orchestration and containerization tools such as Kubernetes and Docker.

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Individual pay within the range will be determined based on job related-factors such as skills, experience, and education or training.

The base pay range for this role in the SF Bay Area / NYC area is:$151,300—$178,000 USDThe base pay range for this role in Seattle Metro, Denver / Boulder Metro, New York (excluding NYC), Washington D.C., or California (excluding SF Bay Area) is:$138,600—$163,100 USDThe base pay range for this role in Colorado (excluding Denver / Boulder Metro) and Washington (excluding Seattle Metro) is:$126,100—$148,300 USD Apply