Senior Cloud Native Software Engineer

Sr MTS, VMware – MAPBU The Elevator Pitch: Why will you enjoy this new opportunity? VMware Tanzu Kubernetes Grid Integrated (aka Enterprise PKS) team is seeking a software engineer to help advance our mission of making TKGI the best platform to operationalize Kubernetes for multi-cloud enterprises and service providers. You have the opportunity not only to contribute to a product that has a direct impact on enterprise customers, but also work closely with the Kubernetes community. If you are passionate about solving challenging problems in order for customers to run their applications at scale on private and public clouds, this is the opportunity for you. What is the primary need, technical challenge, and/or problem you will be responsible for? We need someone who knows Kubernetes and to work with the team to solve challenging problems on TKGI critical production capabilities such as high availability, auto-scaling, health-checks, as well as self-healing and rolling upgrades for Kubernetes clusters. In the meantime, you are also responsible for how to easily customize Kubernetes and simplify deployment and operation of Kubernetes clusters. Success in the Role: What are the performance goals over the first 6-12 months you will work toward completing? You will be expected to produce software designs (Go, Python and Ruby) to support long term extensibility of code, as well as high quality and well-documented code in an automated CI and Test environment.You enjoy researching and developing cutting edge cloud-native software, you participate in open source community and you thrive in technically leading initiatives. You believe in agile software development methodologies, you take ownership of your code and believe in test driven development. You are passionate about understanding customer needs and give priority in delivering the highest quality code. You work closely with support engineers to solve critical customer issues. What type of work will you be doing? What assignments, requirements, or skills will you be performing on a regular basis? As one of the MAMBG Engineers, you will: Run Kubernetes on Containerd runtime Design and implement new features to better run and customize Kubernetes Improve TKGI overall reliability, scalability and ease of use Work with Global Support and Service team to support customer cases Improve stability and test coverage of CI/CD pipelines What is the leadership like for this role? What is the structure and culture of the team like? The hiring manager for this role is Yanzhao Li, Engineering Manager R&D. Yanzhao has worked on cloud native for VMware for more than 4 years. Prior to VMware, Yanzhao was an Assistant Researcher focusing on Linux kernel for the Institute of Information Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences . Yanzhao currently leads our Tanzu Kubernetes Grid Integrated Edition (TKGI) which consists of around 12 engineers focused on Kubernetes lifecycle management on private and public cloud, also expanding the scalability of TKGI. Another team virtually reporting to Yanzhao is the cluster-api-provider-aws team for TKG. 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. Employee Stock Purchase Plan 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.) Healthy and local inspired snacks in all our on-site pantries Category : Engineering and Technology Subcategory: Software Engineering Experience: Manager and Professional Full Time/ Part Time: Full Time Posted Date: 2022-11-14 Research & Development Operations & Central Services: VMware’s R&D Operations and Central Services team makes sure our customers enjoy a high-quality experience across the entire product portfolio.  Our goal is to protect the company’s brand reputation by continually improving customer satisfaction. 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