Senior Staff Engineer- SaaS Cloud Platform – Opportunity for Working Remotely

Business Summary:Are you an experienced, hands-on Senior Staff Software Engineer with SaaS platform knowledge? VMwares Cloud Services R team is looking for a top-tier engineer to help build our cloud platform to enable our SaaS delivery model, and as a result broaden our business into new areas. As a Staff Engineer, you will be instrumental in our initiatives to build and launch new services and solutions that are key to VMwares exciting and evolving strategic SaaS direction.If you have a real passion for building cloud-aware SaaS systems that are highly instrumented, scalable, manageable, and fault tolerant, then you will fit right in. We are looking for engineers with high levels of ownership. If you don’t shy away from hard problems, and enjoy delivering value while furthering your technical vision, this position is for youThe ideal candidate must have extensive development experience with good taste in design and can provide architectural and modeling vision and hands-on technical leadership to a team. Past experience in large scale application design and development is critical. Designing for richness, flexibility, preciseness, performance, reliability and scalability is critical. One of the essential qualities we are looking for in candidates are those driven to solve unique, challenging problems, challenge the conventional wisdom, embrace diving into unexplored technical areas, creativity, intense curiosity and passion, willingness to take risks and unafraid of failure, willing to push the envelope.Job Role and Responsibility:Deep technical skills across both proprietary and open-source, and a good breadth across many technologies. Knowledge spanning multiple platforms and architectures with deep understanding of algorithms, data structures, and performance optimization techniques.Known as a cross-team consensus builderExcellent communication skills, both written and verbal with technical and non-technical multi-functional teamsSolid track record of challenging projects, showing 10 years of experience developing software.Must have experience building large scale, high performance systems and software. Demonstrated excellence in designing and implementing multi-tiered consumer and enterprise applications, high throughput services and integration middlewareExpertise with heterogeneous, enterprise, distributed, object-oriented client/server and/or web-based systems design and implementation.Technical Bachelor or Masters degree (Computer Science, Electrical Engineering)Experience designing for scalability and performance, and designing/integrating large-scale systems.Extensive programming experience in Java, C, C++, goEvaluating impacts on integration, inter-operability, reliability, performance, scalability, flexibility and maintainability.Required Skills:Provide technical leadership for the team that will focus on building our SaaS platform.Work with product managers to define product roadmaps, translate roadmap into functional specs, and designsResponsible for architecture, design, extensibility of one or more productsHands on coding for critical modules of the productParticipate and influence code reviews, design reviews for robust and scalable products ought to be able to work across engineering teams and architects Build and present technical presentations to internal teams and partnersArchitect/Design/Code/Test/Automate major modules of productMentor junior engineers on design, good coding practicesYou will define and implement extensible client-side and server-side components adhering to secure, easy to maintain and follow best engineering practicesPreferred Skills:Ability to work across client/server and geographical boundaries to deliver well integrated solutionsAble to break complex problems into simple scenarios that you estimate and deliver on timeExperience turning requirements and business needs into elegant solutionsVMware 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. All employment decisions at VMware are based on business needs, job requirements and individual qualifications, without regard to race, color, religion or belief, national, social or ethnic origin, sex (including pregnancy), age, physical, mental or sensory disability, HIV Status, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, marital, civil union or domestic partnership status, past or present military service, family medical history or genetic information, family or parental status, or any other status protected by the laws or regulations in the locations where we operate. VMware will not tolerate discrimination or harassment based on any of these characteristics. VMware encourages applicants of all ages. Vmware will provide reasonable accommodation to employees who have protected disabilities consistent with local law.Category : Engineering and TechnologySubcategory: Software EngineeringExperience: Business LeadershipFull Time/ Part Time: Full TimePosted Date: 2021-01-04VMware 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 whats 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. All employment decisions at VMware are based on business needs, job requirements and individual qualifications, without regard to race, color, religion or belief, national, social or ethnic origin, sex (including pregnancy), age, physical, mental or sensory disability, HIV Status, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, marital, civil union or domestic partnership status, past or present military service, family medical history or genetic information, family or parental status, or any other status protected by the laws or regulations in the locations where we operate. VMware will not tolerate discrimination or harassment based on any of these characteristics. VMware encourages applicants of all ages. Vmware will provide reasonable accommodation to employees who have protected disabilities consistent with local law.