Software Engineer II - HashiCorp Platform DR

At HashiCorp, we build the Infrastructure Cloud to help enterprises take a unified approach to reliability, disaster recovery, and operational resilience across cloud and enterprise environments. Our platform ensures the highest standards of availability, performance, and fault tolerance, enabling organizations to operate at scale with confidence.

Role Overview :

As a Disaster Recovery Engineer on the HashiCorp Disaster Recovery team, you will design, implement, and own solutions that strengthen disaster recovery (DR) governance and reliability across our cloud products. Your work will focus on system resilience, operational readiness, and high availability, directly impacting the reliability of our platform.

Key Responsibilities :

• Design, implement, and optimize DR solutions to ensure high availability and fault tolerance across cloud products.
• Develop and execute comprehensive DR testing strategies, identifying bottlenecks and failure points impacting Recovery Point Objectives (RPO) and Recovery Time Objectives (RTO).
• Drive compliance and reliability initiatives by integrating DR best practices into system architecture and leveraging Chaos Engineering to validate failure scenarios.
• Build scalable automation frameworks for testing, incident simulation, and recovery orchestration to reduce manual effort and improve operational efficiency.
• Collaborate with cross-functional engineering, product, and infrastructure teams to embed operational readiness into development lifecycles.
• Lead incident / DR response drills and chaos experiments, analyze test results, document findings, and implement proactive improvements.
• Monitor system performance and availability, creating dashboards and observability tools to provide actionable insights for reliability improvements.
• Mentor engineers and promote a culture of resilience, sharing best practices in system design, testing, and disaster recovery preparedness.

Required Education :

Preferred Education :

Required Technical and Professional Expertise :

Preferred Technical and Professional Experience :

Skills Required

Microservices, Reliability Engineering, Automation