Full-time

Sr. Software Engineer - Backend

Posted by IBM • Austin, TX, United States

📍 Austin, TX 🕒 February 28, 2026

About the Role

**Introduction**
The Foundations Engineering team is composed of Site Reliability Engineers and Software Engineers working on the [1] HCP Terraform hosted service. Our team ensures that the platform’s underlying infrastructure, data stores, and core foundational services are reliable, performant, and robust.

The Engineers on our team own the core foundational services that power the entire HCP Terraform Agent. These mission-critical services and data stores compose the Terraform plan and apply pipeline, and are used by every Terraform run which hits HCP Terraform.

An ideal candidate will have experience building distributed systems at scale, a principled approach to service security, and an interest in working closely with both infrastructure and feature teams to solve complex problems that span several services.

If you fit this profile, we’d love to meet you! We have a large footprint and a quickly-growing user base, with lots of interesting problems and plenty...

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