Why will you enjoy this new opportunity?
You share a passion for crafting software that has a significant impact for the world and future of cloud computing. You love solving problems in the distributed systems and learning new things and are looking for a company that helps enable those ideas. Technologies come and go, but that excites you because of the endless possibilities it creates. You are looking for an opportunity to work for a company whose software is utilized by every Fortune 500 company and significantly impacts every industry. You want to be a part of a collaborative environment whose teams care about the product they are creating, how they create it, and the impact it has on customers' business objectives.
The role is part of a team that builds a highly scalable and reliable distributed SaaS platform consisting of Java microservices running in Kubernetes on AWS and in future other public providers as part of VMWare Cloud. The aim of this platform is to provide many commonly used control plane functionalities via API and make it easy for developers to build highly scalable control plane applications.
Success in the Role: What are the performance outcomes over the first 6-12 months you will work toward completing?
Within your first 6 months:
You'll become comfortable working with the rest of the team and become competent with our development tools, guidelines, processes, and standard operations. You'll understand the high-level architecture of this platform and deploy your services to the production environment.
You will be expected to produce software designs for crucial components of the SaaS platform. These interfaces must meet VMware and industry standards and provide a consistent programming model across multiple programming languages. You'll be expected to resolve internal customer issues through diligent research, reproduction, and troubleshooting.
After 6 months+:
You'll become so well-versed in the environment that you will be able to lead increasingly more complex projects. You'll also be expected to collaborate well with cross-functional teams.
You'll be able to resolve any production issues in the services you own by collaborating with SRE engineers.
You'll start mentor and guide other junior engineers
The Work: What type of work will you be doing? What assignments, requirements, or skills will you be performing on a regular basis?
As a new member of the Platform Team, you will:
Take part in design and develop a scalable service control plane across multi region and multiple cloud
Engage with and drive high-visibility DevOps process including continuous integration and continuous deployment with zero-downtime upgrades.
Collaborate with multi-functional VMware project teams including VMware consultants, engineers, product management, and support staff.
Work closely with service teams and support and enhance the infrastructure (K8s, messaging, and DB layer)
Develop and maintain software that delivers on the team's objectives primarily in Java and infrequently, in Golang using Spring technologies and AWS services.
Deploy microservices to Kubernetes using Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) systems
Participate in our on-call rotation, providing operational support to our platform
Build and maintain core infrastructure services that can run in geographically distributed regions running on multiple cloud providers
Contribute to end-to-end system architecture, working with service developers
Collaborate well and be a team player
Important Skills:
Proven track record of delivering highly available and scalable systems
Advanced coding skills in Java
Experience in public cloud architecture
Cloud automation skills
Experience in observability technologies
Working knowledge of containerization
Experience designing customer centric API's
Database design and development knowledge
Eye towards security and authorization protocols
Excellent communication skills essential to work as part of a global team
Knowledge of various compliance and security (Fedramp, SOC2, Secret/Top Secret) is desirable
What is the leadership like for this role? What is the structure and culture of the team like?
You will be joining a scrum team of 5-6 member part of the Atlas SaaS platform in the VMWare Cloud Solutions organization. The team culture is one based on building trust, delivering world-class software and on-going development through coaching. We trust each other to get the job done right, which allows for a flexible schedule to balance work and life.
What are the benefits and perks of working at VMware?
You and your loved ones will be supported with a competitive and comprehensive benefits package. Below are some highlights, or you can view the complete benefits package by visiting www.benefits.vmware.com
Employee Stock Purchase Plan
Medical Coverage, Retirement, and Parental Leave Plans for All Family
Generous Time Off Programs
40 hours of paid time to volunteer in your community
Rethink's Neurodiversity program to support parents raising children with
learning or behavior challenges, or developmental disabilities
Financial contributions to your ongoing development (conference
This job may require the candidate to travel and/or work from a facility that requires full vaccination prior to entry.
Category : Engineering and Technology
Subcategory: Software Engineering
Experience: Manager and Professional
Full Time/ Part Time: Full Time
Posted Date: 2022-10-17
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