Why will you enjoy this new opportunity?
Join our team of Software Engineers who help customers build and improve their software! We do this through a dedication to Test Driven Development, Pair Programming, and Clean Code concepts. We also encourage our clients to create an environment conducive to high-performing teams and engaged employees.
The people who succeed at Tanzu Labs are excited to learn and help others learn constantly. As consultants, we sometimes work in business domains or tech stacks unfamiliar to us, but we can achieve exceptional results through excellent software writing processes.
You will be working on the VMware 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 Staff Engineer, you will typically work on focused projects in our office and/or at a customer location as part of a balanced team of architects, engineers, product managers, designers and other stakeholders. You’ll help customers realize unprecedented returns by developing and/or modernizing applications across a vast spectrum of complexity, language, and framework types.
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.
You are unique: as a curious, passionate, engaging, hands-on engineer you will help customers realize the benefits of cloud native applications and architectures. You will also work closely with the engineering and platform teams to transform the way our customers build and run their software.
Working with customer engineers, architects, and product owners to apply Lean/XP techniques in order to develop and/or modernize software to thrive on Tanzu platform
Pair programming with clients and other VMware Labs engineers to build/modernize software based on the team’s backlog
Manage risk and uncertainty while moving the team forward
Teaching your client pairs how to do the above for themselves
Providing technical leadership and direction to customer engagements
Facilitating group events (i.e. discovery workshops, event storms and value stream mapping sessions, in-/outceptions, standups and iteration planning meetings)
Contributing back to VMware Pivotal Lab's engineering practice through mentorship, giving talks, and experience reports
Developing product backlogs and roadmaps
Meeting with existing and prospective customers to assist sales efforts
Active TS/SCI Full Scope Poly required
Building distributed, service oriented, cloud based systems
Have implemented cloud native applications or can demonstrate a thorough understanding of cloud native architecture
Experience in Test Driven Development (TDD) and agile methodologies, including refactoring
Ability to incrementally define and improve system architecture as a product evolves
Expertise building CI/CD pipelines
Strong written and oral communication skills
Comfortable in new situations with new clients
8+ years of software development experience
Passion for growing your skills, tackling interesting work and challenging problems
Experience with Domain Driven Design
Experience modernizing legacy applications/systems in languages such as Java or .NET
Experience facilitating large groups of people
Polyglot programming experience
Expertise in Java/Spring and/or .NET
Experience with Kubernetes, Chef, Ansible, BOSH, or related automation / orchestration tools
Some experience working with NTP, SAML, OAuth 2, Active Directory
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
Background in Windows deployment, automation, and related technologies
All 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 is the leadership like for this role? What is the structure and culture of the team like?
We believe in collaborative, autonomous teams focused on achieving our customer’s goals. Our leadership strives to create a healthy environment for you to do your best work and will empower you to work directly with your team and clients to deliver.
Your manager will be an experienced Software Engineer, Product Manager, or Designer. They will support your growth through training, mentorship, and stretch opportunities. You should expect regular 1:1 meetings with your manager that are focused on project support and career planning.
We are passionate about building valuable software and software teams set up for long term success. We strive to leave every client team better than we found it and love collaborating along this exciting journey. We have a bias towards action and love to test ideas so we can learn and improve. We have learned that being empathetic, inclusive, and kind empowers people to achieve greatness. We look forward to welcoming new team members!
VMware is an Equal Opportunity Employer committed to providing employees with a work environment free of discrimination and harassment. All employment decisions are based on business needs, job requirements and individual qualifications, without regard to race, color, religion or belief, national, social or ethnic origin, age, physical, mental or sensory disability, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, marital, civil union or domestic partnership status, past or present military service, HIV status, family medical history or genetic information, family or parental status including pregnancy, 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.
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: Business Leadership
Full Time/ Part Time: Full Time
Posted Date: 2023-03-28
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