Senior Software Engineer - HashiCorp Secure Products

IBM

IBM

Software Engineering

Markham, ON, Canada

Posted on Apr 30, 2026
Introduction

At IBM Software, we transform client challenges into solutions. Building the world’s leading AI-powered, cloud-native products that shape the future of business and society. Our legacy of innovation creates endless opportunities for IBMers to learn, grow, and make an impact on a global scale. Working in Software means joining a team fueled by curiosity and collaboration. You’ll work with diverse technologies, partners, and industries to design, develop, and deliver solutions that power digital transformation. With a culture that values innovation, growth, and continuous learning, IBM Software places you at the heart of IBM’s product and technology landscape. Here, you’ll have the tools and opportunities to advance your career while creating software that changes the world.

Your role and responsibilities

We’re looking for Senior Engineers with a deep backend focus to join our team. In this role, you can expect to:
* Lead the design, prototyping, and implementation of multi-phase features and tools with a high business impact, ensuring stability and usability
* Collaborate closely with Product Design, Product Management, and cross-functional engineering teams to align on priorities and technical solutions
* Act as a subject matter expert in Golang development and quality standards, influencing internal teams and the external community
* Assess and break down large projects across multiple teams, evaluating tradeoffs to maintain project momentum and alignment
* Spot potential technical issues before they happen. Recommend improvements to maintain quality, efficiency, and productivity
* Stay current on industry trends and best practices, advancing their adoption within the team and across the organization
* Advocate for technical roadmaps that enhance organizational performance, and participate in system-wide debugging, maintenance, and production support
* Mentor

Required education
High School Diploma/GED
Preferred education
Bachelor's Degree
Required technical and professional expertise
  • You have professional experience of 7+ years in developing with modern programming languages and frameworks, and are interested in working in Golang specifically
  • You have experience working with distributed systems, and cloud providers such as AWS, Azure, or GCP, with a focus on scalability, resilience, and security
  • Demonstrated conflict resolution skills with the ability to proactively identify and address technical and project-related challenges, balancing differing perspectives to maintain project alignment and team cohesion
  • Skilled in organization and increasingly perceptive of team dynamics and work relationships. Able to guide technical decisions to support current and long-term objectives for various projects and products
  • Innovative thinker who can identify areas for improvement and propose solutions that enhance technical roadmaps, processes, and methodologies, ensuring the delivery of high-quality outcomes
    You have developed the skill of leveling up your peers through code and design reviews, pair programming, and mentorship.
Preferred technical and professional experience
  • Experience with directly with internal teams, the customer and/or external community and designs solutions based on requirements and the needs of the customer
  • You have experience using HashiCorp products (Terraform, Packer, Waypoint, Nomad, Vault, Boundary, Consul).
  • You have prior experience working in cloud platform engineering teams

ABOUT BUSINESS UNIT

IBM Software infuses core business operations with intelligence—from machine learning to generative AI—to help make organizations more responsive, productive, and resilient. IBM Software helps clients put AI into action now to create real value with trust, speed, and confidence across digital labor, IT automation, application modernization, security, and sustainability. Critical to this is the ability to make use of all data, because AI is only as good as the data that fuels it. In most organizations data is spread across multiple clouds, on premises, in private datacenters, and at the edge. IBM’s AI and data platform scales and accelerates the impact of AI with trusted data, and provides leading capabilities to train, tune and deploy AI across business. IBM’s hybrid cloud platform is one of the most comprehensive and consistent approach to development, security, and operations across hybrid environments—a flexible foundation for leveraging data, wherever it resides, to extend AI deep into a business.

YOUR LIFE @ IBM

In a world where technology never stands still, we understand that, dedication to our clients success, innovation that matters, and trust and personal responsibility in all our relationships, lives in what we do as IBMers as we strive to be the catalyst that makes the world work better.

Being an IBMer means you’ll be able to learn and develop yourself and your career, you’ll be encouraged to be courageous and experiment everyday, all whilst having continuous trust and support in an environment where everyone can thrive whatever their personal or professional background.

Our IBMers are growth minded, always staying curious, open to feedback and learning new information and skills to constantly transform themselves and our company. They are trusted to provide on-going feedback to help other IBMers grow, as well as collaborate with colleagues keeping in mind a team focused approach to include different perspectives to drive exceptional outcomes for our customers. The courage our IBMers have to make critical decisions everyday is essential to IBM becoming the catalyst for progress, always embracing challenges with resources they have to hand, a can-do attitude and always striving for an outcome focused approach within everything that they do.

Are you ready to be an IBMer?

ABOUT IBM

IBM’s greatest invention is the IBMer. We believe that through the application of intelligence, reason and science, we can improve business, society and the human condition, bringing the power of an open hybrid cloud and AI strategy to life for our clients and partners around the world.

Restlessly reinventing since 1911, we are not only one of the largest corporate organizations in the world, we’re also one of the biggest technology and consulting employers, with many of the Fortune 500 companies relying on the IBM Cloud to run their business.

At IBM, we pride ourselves on being an early adopter of artificial intelligence, quantum computing and blockchain. Now it’s time for you to join us on our journey to being a responsible technology innovator and a force for good in the world.

IBM 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, genetics, pregnancy, disability, neurodivergence, age, or other characteristics protected by the applicable law. IBM is also committed to compliance with all fair employment practices regarding citizenship and immigration status.

OTHER RELEVANT JOB DETAILS

Must have the ability to work in Canada without sponsorship.

This role will involve working with technology that is covered by Export Regulations sanctions. If you are a Foreign National from any of the following US sanctioned countries (Cuba, Iran, North Korea, Syria, and the Crimea, Luhansk, Donetsk, Kherson, and Zaporizhia regions of Ukraine) on a work permit, you are not eligible for employment in this position.

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