Up to 100K GBP / year
OpenBao Developer
BackendWorkplace — Europe, North America, APAC
Published on 2026-11-03
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About this role
Develop and maintain core features for OpenBao, an open-source identity-aware secrets management platform. The role focuses on secure, high-performance Go systems engineering and contributing to OpenBao’s open-source development and release processes.
About the company
ControlPlane provides cloud-native consulting and security services focused on Kubernetes, open-source tooling, and secure platform engineering.
The team
Open-source development team, working alongside the Head of OpenBao Development.
Stack
GoOpenBaoHashiCorp VaultLinuxDockerKubernetesTerraformOpenTofu
What you'll do
- Design and maintain OpenBao core capabilities, plugins, storage backends, and secrets engines.
- Collaborate on architecture, technical RFCs, and feature roadmaps.
- Review community contributions and triage issues.
- Write unit, integration, and security tests; support CI/CD and release workflows.
- Remediate vulnerability reports and apply secure coding practices.
What we're looking for
- Production-grade Go experience, including concurrency, interface design, testing, and performance profiling.
- Understanding of software security, PKI/TLS, cryptography, authentication and authorization, and API design.
- Intermediate-to-senior backend systems engineering experience, typically 3–5+ years.
- Ability to align working hours with a team across the USA, New Zealand, and the UK.
Nice to have
- Experience with the OpenBao or HashiCorp Vault codebase, plugins, storage drivers, dynamic secrets, or internal RPC.
- Familiarity with Linux, Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, or OpenTofu.
- Open-source contributions to Go projects or security tooling.
Benefits
- 33 days of paid holiday, including UK bank holidays.
- Enhanced parental leave.
- Private medical and dental insurance.
- Individual training and personal development budget.
- Bonus.