The Elevator Pitch: Why will you enjoy this new opportunity?

As a Software Engineer in the Cloud Management Business Unit (CMBU), you’ll collaborate with a diverse team of talented engineers building creative and comprehensive cloud management solutions that span private-, hybrid-, and multi-cloud environments. Your passion for solving customer problems and interest in learning new technologies will help you reach beyond obvious approaches and produce software that defies convention. Of course, how you build is as important as what you build, so you will have considerable influence shaping a development process that suits you and your team.

You will help propel VMware’s mission to win the multi-cloud enterprise by delivering choice and flexibility for our customers. Our award-winning cloud management solutions are themselves cloud-based, and we are focused on driving customers’ consumption of these and other VMware SaaS (Software as a Service) offerings. Simultaneously, we are building a new open-source engine that will both supercharge our own cloud management solutions and provide customers with a powerful alternative to competing infrastructure-as-code products. You’ll partner with teams across engineering, product management, and customer-facing organizations to design and deliver high-quality code, packaged for portability and built following modern best practices. Your team will move quickly, maintaining a healthy sense of urgency while continuously refining engineering processes and architectural decision-making to optimize for quality and efficiency.

Beyond delivering robust technical solutions, you will be challenged to develop yourself professionally and personally. You’ll be supported by a small group of seasoned and supportive leaders as well as your peers, who continuously work together to get the best out of one another and ensure the collective team is operating efficiently and effectively. Exposure to unique experiences and cutting-edge technology along with access to high-quality learning resources will help your career flourish within VMware, no matter the direction you decide to take it.

Success in the Role: What are the performance goals over the first 6–12 months you will work toward completing?

• Within the first month- You’ve gotten to know the individuals on your team and have begun to develop healthy working relationships. You understand the cloud management space and feel comfortable using VMware’s related products. You understand the product architecture,

tech stack, and deployment pipeline for at least one of these products and have set up a development environment and committed code.

• Within your first 3 months – You are working comfortably with your team to deliver incremental value to customers through the implementation and testing of new features. You are writing robust product code and reliable automated tests, and confidently fixing bugs as they arise.
• Within your first 6 months – Working with your manager, you’ve established a high-level career development plan for yourself, taking advantage of available educational resources and mentoring programs within VMware. You’ve internalized VMware’s EPIC2 values: Execution, Passion, Integrity, Customers, and Community.
• By the end of your first year – You are navigating all aspects of the agile development process and collaborating with key stakeholders cross-functionally to turn customer requirements into product features. You are directly contributing to CMBU OKRs (Objectives and Key Results) as an experienced member of the cloud management engineering team. You are both learning from and influencing the careers of others in the team.

What type of work will you be doing? What assignments, requirements, or skills will you be performing on a regular basis?

As an engineer in the CMBU, you will:

• Join a talented agile development team capable of working across functional and geographic boundaries to deliver a stream of high-quality features and enhancements to customers.
• Use and learn popular, modern technologies and methods to construct and operate enterprise-class software services at cloud scale:

o Aria Automation’s Java-based microservices run on AWS (Amazon Web Services) using technologies like Apache Kafka, Docker, and Kubernetes.

o Idem’s modular Python-based architecture invites contribution from and extension by a growing open-source community that you will help incubate.

• Prioritize the success of existing and potential customers by providing prompt consultation and support, driving open issues to conclusion with urgency and to all stakeholders’ satisfaction.
• Foster a positive, supportive, inclusive, and diverse team culture aligned with VMware’s EPIC2 values and CMBU’s “One Team” philosophy.
• Have a voice in what you build and how you build it, as a valued member of a cross-functional, international engineering team passionate about its mission and obsessed with continuous improvement.

What is leadership like for this role? What is the structure and culture of the team like?

You will report to Mike Merrill, Senior Software Engineering Manager, an experienced leader who has been managing development teams within the CMBU since joining VMware in 2013. Mike’s leadership style encourages independent thinking and emphasizes a team-first attitude based on mutual respect and openness to new ideas.

Mike’s team spans the United States and works closely with VMware engineers around the world to solve challenging problems on behalf of our customers. The organization’s distributed nature demands effective communication skills and flexibility and offers exposure to diverse perspectives that help provide a rich professional experience.

The team makes our customers successful by trusting one another to do the job that’s required on our own individual terms, balancing work and life to remain healthy, positive, and productive. We work hard but also take time to build relationships and have fun.

Where is the role located?

Flexible: The location of this role is flexible within the United States. Work can be done remotely at your location of choice or in person from a nearby VMware office. Much of the team is in Massachusetts, but some members live and work elsewhere.

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.

• Medical Coverage, Retirement, and Parental Leave Plans for All Family Types
• 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 participation, training, course work, etc.)
• Wellness reimbursement and online fitness and wellbeing classes

For New York City based candidates the hiring range for this position is typically $103000-$175000. The actual offer will be based on the individual candidate. Bonus, commission, and/or equity may be eligible for this position. Additional benefits for this position can be found at https://benefits.vmware.com/.

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: 2022-11-30

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