Sr. Manager, Engineering - Terraform Core

About the team

Terraform Authorship is a group of teams that maintains the Core of Terraform (Community Edition) and drives both community and commercial value. Our mission is to keep Terraform at the forefront of the Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) space by driving industry-leading innovations that improve workflows for our customers and global community. We strive to make Terraform the best tool for managing infrastructure, and HCP Terraform the best product for realizing the full value of Terraform.

The next generation of Terraform innovations will dramatically improve the experience of using Terraform: for the people who author Terraform modules and providers, for the people who use Terraform to manage infrastructure, and for people who manage Terraform at scale in their businesses. We are looking for folks to join our management team who can help orient teams toward these goals, maintain focus, remove blockers, and facilitate the cross-functional and cross-team collaboration necessary to help us achieve these ambitious goals.

We’d encourage you to take a look at the HashiCorp principles: These are not idle words stenciled on a wall and forgotten about. They are core principles that we have found to be necessary for high-performing teams to create better outcomes for our customers and communities.

To succeed, you’ll need:

• The Vision to see a better future for our customers
• The Communication skills to win support for this vision inside and outside your team
• The Kindness the Integrity to speak truth to and on behalf of your teams
• The Pragmatism to make calculated tradeoffs between “good enough” and “Beauty Works Better” on a situational basis
• The Curiosity to expand your knowledge of both the technical and business domains your team contributes to
• The Humility and Reflection capacity to continuously learn and improve
• The Execution mindset to see your team’s work through to its ultimate, customer-facing impact

Come join us and help shape the future of Terraform!

What you’ll do (responsibilities)

• Hire within the US and Canada to grow the team with kind, collaborative, and skilled engineers.
• Lean on your deep experience leading groups of teams toward a clear shared outcome.
• Support the career growth and morale of a team of Engineering Managers at varying experience levels.
• Provide team members and peers with clear, actionable, useful feedback.
• Collaborate with Product and Design partners to prioritize and scope work, contribute to strategy, vision, and roadmap discussions, and facilitate internal and cross-team quarterly planning and estimation.
• Lead efforts to triage, estimate, and plan work requests from a variety of sources.
• Help teams navigate and maintain strong focus through times of rapid change.
• Gather, synthesize, and process feedback in a way that results in improvements the team can see.
• Build relationships with cross-functional peers across the organization to gather early feedback, generate buy-in, and drive adoption of your team’s work.
• Implement practices that improve sustainability and resilience of the team and the products they build.
• Lead impactful, large-scale projects that require partnership across multiple teams over multiple quarters to achieve clear business outcomes.

What you’ll need (basic qualifications)

• 4 years of software engineering people management experience
• 6 years of engineering experience
• Experience building developer tools for command line interfaces
• Must be located in the Eastern Time Zone
• Experience leading and managing remote distributed teams
• Strong communication skills with a successful track record of working cross-functionally to deliver strategic initiatives
• Experience navigating and managing projects spanning multiple codebases and organizations with separate ownership
• Passion for fostering a positive team culture and driving innovation while maintaining a strong focus on operational reliability

What's nice to have (preferred qualifications)

• Terraform experience and/or knowledge
• A cover letter without AI assistance is highly preferred

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