OpenBao Developer

About the role

This position is listed on behalf of a partner company, who manages all applications and next steps. Our partner is looking for an OpenBao Developer based in United Kingdom.

This is an opportunity for an experienced Go Engineer to contribute to the development of OpenBao, an open-source identity-aware secrets management platform. You will work closely with senior engineering leadership to design, build, and maintain secure, high-performance backend capabilities that support modern cloud-native infrastructure. The role combines core systems engineering with security-focused development, architectural collaboration, and active open-source community participation. You will contribute to features such as secrets engines, authentication methods, plugins, and storage backends while helping strengthen software quality and release security. Working within a globally distributed engineering team, you will have the opportunity to influence technical direction and advance open-source security solutions. This is a full-time remote position requiring the right to work in the UK or EU.

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Design, develop, and maintain core OpenBao features, plugins, storage backends, and secrets engines using Go.

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Collaborate with engineering leadership on system architecture, technical design discussions, and the preparation of technical Request for Comments (RFCs).

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Break down complex feature roadmaps into clear, actionable engineering tasks and deliverables.

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Write clean, secure, maintainable, and high-performance Go code, following secure-by-design principles and cryptographic best practices.

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Review and address reported vulnerabilities, contributing to the security and reliability of the platform.

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Participate in upstream open-source development by reviewing pull requests, triaging issues, and supporting high-quality community contributions.

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Contribute to internal research and development projects, security tooling, and integration prototypes related to identity and secrets management.

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Develop comprehensive unit, integration, and security tests to maintain software quality and production reliability.

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Support CI/CD automation, release workflows, and supply chain security for OpenBao distribution artifacts.

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Collaborate with a distributed international team, coordinating effectively across time zones.

Requirements:

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Approximately 3–5+ years of backend or systems software engineering experience, with an intermediate to senior level of technical capability.

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Strong proficiency in Go (Golang), including production-grade development, concurrency patterns such as goroutines and channels, interface design, testing, and performance profiling.

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Solid understanding of systems engineering and software security fundamentals, including PKI/TLS, cryptographic concepts, authentication and authorization models, and API design.