Sr Software Engineer - K8S/Cloud - Open To Remote Office Location In US / Work From Home Office Glendale Heights, IL

Business Summary

VMware is a global leader in cloud infrastructure and business mobility. VMware accelerates customers’ digital transformation journey by enabling enterprises to master a software-defined approach to business and IT. With VMware solutions, organizations are building extraordinary experiences by mobilizing everything. Our customers are responding faster to opportunities with modern data and apps hosted across hybrid clouds, and safeguarding customer trust with a defense-in-depth approach to cybersecurity.

The Team

We are the Service Mesh team in the CTO org working on addressing the challenges of scaling microservices architectures and known for innovation and execution. We work on cutting edge technologies around Service Mesh, Istio, Envoy, Kubernetes, Docker, cloud technologies, CI/CD, gRPC, timeseries and graph DB, messaging to name a few.

If you are passionate about working in a startup culture but with the benefits of a globally established company and are interested in learning the latest innovations happening in the cloud and microservices space then this role is for you.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement microservices in a variety of programming languages including Nodejs (Typescript), Go-lang
• Design the GRPC API for communication between the microservices
• Implement unit and functional tests using mock frameworks to deliver high quality software products
• Integrate application with open-tracing to have debugging/performance monitoring in production
• Package the application as a Kubernetes microservice and deploy on public cloud and on-prem environments.
• Support customer issues and bugs
• Work in a dynamic Agile development environment and being adaptable to changing requirements
• Intense eagerness to learn, ready to dive deep into complex problems
• Document architectures, procedures, and processes in use and contribute to improvement of the process
• Continuously review the product and code for optimizations and performance improvements
• Evaluate and recommend newer technologies to bring into the platform
• Design end-end architecture of newer systems and components and present them to the team
• Lead and mentor other engineers in the team
• Participate in planning , estimation, prioritization and cost-benefit analysis for projects

Requirements

• Bachelors degree in CS or related field
• At least 5-8 years of software engineering experience in Javascript/Java/Go or similar languages
• Solid understanding of object oriented concepts, distributed systems, REST/RPC based service development
• Sound coding logic with a focus on quality, availability, scalability and performance.
• Familiarity with relational and NoSQL databases
• Familiarity with source control tools like Git
• Customer focused and team player with a positive can-do attitude
• Familiarity with containerization, CI/CD, networking and cloud native application development

Preferred Qualifications

• Expertise in Typescript and/or Golang
• Experience working with Docker containers and Kubernetes deployments
• Experience working in AWS
• Experience with distributed tracing
• Experience in scripting and yaml configurations
• Led large projects at scale in a public cloud environment

Category : Engineering and Technology
Subcategory: Software Engineering
Experience: Manager and Professional
Full Time/ Part Time: Full Time
Posted Date: 2021-01-26

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