Senior Software Engineer – Opportunity for Working Remotely

About UsReady to build? So are we. Come join VMware’s new exciting Modern Applications Business Unit (MAPBU) team, made up of products and services under the Tanzu portfolio to help customers build, run and manage their most important applications. To learn more about Tanzu watch this video. #TeamTanzuAbout YouYou have a passion for high-quality, reliable and maintainable code. You’re comfortable working side by side with product managers, designers, and clients, making decisions together in order to quickly deliver valuable working software to clients and their users. You’re agile and retrospective, and not afraid to identify what we’re doing wrong so we can fix it, and what we’re doing right so we can improve on it. Above all, you judge your success by the success of your team and the happiness of our customers.What You’ll Be DoingYou will be working on the VMware Pivotal Labs Federal Services team, helping US Government product teams to design and deliver modern, mission-critical, cloud-native applications serving a variety of mission and user needs.As a software engineer, you will pair daily with government software engineers, coaching them in Extreme Programming (XP) methodologies and approaches while helping them to define, validate, communicate, and execute product vision and strategy. You will work with a team of product managers, designers, and engineers to enable your client team to go fast forever.All of our product team positions are highly collaborative consulting roles, with 85-90% of time spent in direct, 1:1 pairing or larger team collaboration. During the COVID-19 crisis, this collaboration is all managed remotely. This role comes with the expectation once the crisis is resolved, you’ll be working a mix of from home and traveling (up to 50% of the time).You Will Be Responsible For* Working with your client engineers to enable them in XP software development practices and/or application modernization practices* Pair programming with clients and other VMware Pivotal Labs engineers to build/modernize software based on the team’s backlog* Leading one or more teams through complex engineering efforts* Managing risk and uncertainty while moving the team forward* Teaching your client pairs how to do the above for themselves* Enabling client leadership to grow their own engineering practice* Contributing back to VMware Pivotal Lab’s engineering practice through mentorship, giving talks, and experience reportsRequired Skills and Experience* Experience in training, mentoring and/or upskilling others* Strong communication skills and interest in a pair-programming environment* Experience in Test Driven Development (TDD) and agile methodologies, including refactoring* 8+ years of Software Development experience in a variety of programming languages* Passion for growing your skills, tackling interesting work and challenging problems* BA/BS in Computer Science or related field, or equivalent experience* Experience developing cloud-based enterprise software* Experience leading a product or development team* Ability to incrementally define and improve system architecture as a product evolves* Experience modernizing legacy applications/systems in languages such as Java or C#/.NET* Experience with Continuous Integration (CI) tools* Experience working directly with clientsDesired Skills and Experience* Experience adapting or contributing to open-source frameworks* Experience in release management* Experience supporting production systems using Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) practices* Experience with Kubernetes, Chef, Ansible, BOSH, or related automation / orchestration tools* Some experience working with NTP, SAML, OAuth 2, Active Directory* Experience using VMware vSphere / ESXi / NSX-T* Experience with networking and related technologies (e.g. load balancing / DNS / SSL / firewalls / NAT / SDN)* Strong experience with full-stack development* Experience with Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud or OpenStack* Experience with a platform as a service product such as Cloud Foundry, Heroku, Elastic Beanstalk, or similar* Solid understanding of systems monitoring, alerting and analytics* A background in Windows deployment, automation, and related technologiesEducation* BA/BS in Computer Science or related field, or equivalent experienceThis position will perform work that the U.S. government has specified can only be performed by a U.S. citizen on U.S. soil, and therefore any offer will be contingent upon verification of both of these requirementsAll work within the VMware Pivotal Labs Services team is with the Federal Government, in support of multiple Department of Defense (DoD), Intelligence Community (IC), and Civilian agency programs/customers.What’s it like to work at VMwareWe believe that teams should spend more of their time delivering incremental value and less on building infrastructure. We’re building platforms, tools, and automation, including Tanzu Application Service, Tanzu Kubernetes Grid, and Tanzu Mission Control, to enable our customers to easily and confidently develop and run the software that powers their business. Hundreds of companies rely on our platform to meet the needs of millions of their customers. Our engineers embrace Extreme Programming (XP) as a way to go fast forever and deliver remarkable results. Our product managers and product designers work side-by-side with our engineers in small, empowered teams, using Lean and UCD as guides. We measure success by making our customers more productive, as software developers, product managers, and product designers. We enable our customers to build high quality products to serve the people of the United States.Our Principles* Empower Teams – Diverse teams with shared context, psychological safety, and decision-making authority move faster.* Start Simple – Learn just enough to begin and let the work inform the direction.* Embrace Change – Expect change and turn it into opportunity.* Deliver Early and Often – Ship value to users and measure impact to lower risk.* Improve Continuously – We are always learning and humbled by what we don’t know.* Contribute to Open Source Communities – Share our time, tools, and methodologies to maximize our impact.This position is eligible for TanzuChallenge referral campaignCategory : Engineering and TechnologySubcategory: Software EngineeringExperience: Business LeadershipFull Time/ Part Time: Full TimePosted Date: 2021-01-26VMware Company Overview: At VMware, we believe that software has the power to unlock new opportunities for people and our planet. We look beyond the barriers of compromise to engineer new ways to make technologies work together seamlessly. Our cloud, mobility, and security software form a flexible, consistent digital foundation for securely delivering the apps, services and experiences that are transforming business innovation around the globe. At the core of what we do are our people who deeply value execution, passion, integrity, customers, and community. Shape what’s possible today at http://careers.vmware.com.Equal Employment Opportunity Statement: VMware is an Equal Opportunity Employer and Prohibits Discrimination and Harassment of Any Kind: VMware is committed to the principle of equal employment opportunity for all employees and to providing employees with a work environment free of discrimination and harassment. 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