Staff Engineer - Backend - HCP Terraform (Ionic)

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Requirements:

• Have 7+ years of production experience working on backend applications written in Ruby on Rails.
• Expertise designing and building authorization systems (RBAC and ABAC).
• Ability to work with a large group of skilled engineers, providing technical guidance and decision-making ability.
• Ability to take on vague and partially defined problems and provide solutions.
• Experience or interest in learning Terraform and Terraform internals.
• Experience navigating large and complex codebases.
• Experience leading software development projects from conception to delivery.
• Proactive and excels at swiftly delivering valuable results to meet product goals.
• Enjoys working collaboratively on a fully-remote, fast-moving team.
• Strong written communication skills, and understands how to use tools like code review to asynchronously unblock and level up peers.

Responsibilities:

• Lead the design, development, and implementation of RBAC-related back services on which HCP Terraform relies.
• Provide technical guidance and mentorship to engineers within the Ionic team.
• Continuously improve the product by writing code in systems written in Ruby on Rails.
• Investigate problems, performance bottlenecks, and orchestration issues which span multiple services.
• Spend time writing about customer problems, potential solutions, and more in the form of RFCs (Requests For Comments).
• Enable your teammates through technical mentorship, code reviews, and pairing.
• Participate in a 24/7 on-call rotation that supports our production services.