VMware Hiring For Engineering Manager, VMC – Opportunity for Working Remotely at Palo Alto, CA Full Time

If you are excited about consistent automation across public and private clouds, self-service, multi-cloud automation with governance, and DevOps-based infrastructure management and security.

If you share a passion for crafting software for cloud-scale, love solving complex problems, and are looking for a company that helps enable those ideas to fuel multi-cloud adoption in every Fortune 500 company.

If you want to be a part of a collaborative environment whose teams care about the product they are creating, how they make it, and its impact on customers’ business objectives.

Then, join the highly talented engineering team to design, develop, and deliver features in the VMware Cloud Automation product line – vRealize Automation.

With VMware Cloud, we have extended our proven infrastructure from the data center to major global cloud providers to the edge. And we have embedded Kubernetes into the platform. All of which enables you to run your traditional and cloud-native apps anywhere.

We have extended consistent multi-cloud operations beyond VMware Cloud to all native public clouds. AWS, Azure, Google, Oracle, IBM, and many more. We aggressively develop new management capabilities to help our customers accelerate their transformation to the new multi-cloud era. Our products are undergoing rapid change, and most of your work will be on new code using some of the most current frameworks and libraries.

Success in the Role: What are the performance goals over the first 6-12 months you will work toward completing?

• You will be responsible for designing and delivering priority features by working with the key stakeholders, including PMs, architects, other team members, and across geographic locations.
• You will be expected to produce software design and corresponding code with the highest quality. You are an active contributor to a large volume of code, design wikis, code reviews. These designs and code must meet VMware and industry quality standards.
• Our team firmly believes in “Dev Owns Quality”, and we expect to release our products with near-zero defects and no regressions. You will deliver automated tests and documentation to support the implementations of new features and functionalities in the vRA product and help solve any customer issues in the product.
• We operate as one team across the globe, and as such, everyone owns every aspect of the product, from developing new capabilities to supporting customer issues.
• You will also become familiar with the development and CICD processes in place in the vRA team. You will be able to independently take a code change from review, prefights, and postflight pipelines, across various cloud environments to production.
• As a member of the vRA team, you will work with and contribute to its Kubernetes-based microservices architecture, and all your deliverables must align with the group’s development and deployment standards.

What type of work will you be doing? What assignments, requirements, or skills will you be performing on a regular basis?

• As a Technology Leader, You will work with the engineering teams and product management to review and refine delivery requirements.
• Work closely with other cross-functional leads and specialists across the product teams, own end-to-end deliverables.
• Work closely with customers as required to understand use cases and how our products can be developed to deliver on these use cases.
• Write technical design documents and hold reviews.
• Guide and mentor other engineers on the direct team and across the organization.
• Perform Work breakdown and plan execution in Jira for large features.
• Design and develop highly efficient code ensuring scalability, performance, security, and quality
• Develop and maintain software that delivers on the team’s objectives primarily in Java-based microservices on spring boot-based framework.
• Drive and embody the “Dev Owns Quality” culture.
• Deploy microservices to Kubernetes using Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) systems.
• Provide technical leadership to the feature team. Lead design and code reviews.
• Participate in our on-call rotation, providing operational support to our platform.
• Participate in all team agile ceremonies.
• Communicate with internal consumers of the team’s software and gather requirements and facilitate the adoption of your solutions.

What is the leadership like for this role? What is the structure and culture of the team like?

This position reports to the R&D Sr. Manager of vRealize Cloud Automation (VRA), an experienced software engineer and manager. The team consists of highly competent engineers. We focus on iterative development, both of software and our software development practices.

This is a great opportunity for someone who likes to start new things and put their mark on a team and company.

Where is this role located?

Our team is located primarily at VMware’s Palo Alto office as well as Burlington MA, and remote locations across the US.

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

• Employee Stock Purchase Plan
• Retirement 401K Matching
• Medical Coverage 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.)
• Wellness reimbursement and online fitness and wellbeing classes