Senior Backend Engineer, VMware Cloud on AWS - remote

Posted 3 years ago  • Sofia, Bulgaria

Are you passionate about hands on design and development of backend services? Are you inspired by innovation? It's this combination of gusto and analytical skills we need. If you have experience in driving a project/product to completion &further supporting it in production for multiple releases, then you are invited to apply.

This is an opportunity for working on the new Software Defined Data Center as a Service (SDDCaaS) offering. Our vision is to expand our well-established Availability capabilities in On-Prem Data Center to the Cloud. You’ll be part of a bright engineering team that is working on a state of the art Cloud features like Multi-AZ, Elastic Clusters, Globally Available Services, etc.

VMware SDDCaaS enables customers to rapidly spin up cloud-hosted, enterprise-grade and secure data centers that are operationally consistent with vSphere-based private clouds. With the same architecture on-premises and in the cloud, IT teams can now realize the value of the hybrid cloud.

Responsibilities:

  • You master the entire life-cycle including research, design, application and deployment architecture, development, testing (dev owns quality), continuous deployment and continuous delivery up until to production.
  • You will develop complex, highly available, distributed, cloud-based solutions, and maintain its high level of quality software.
  • Monitor resource allocation, consumption, and performance.
  • Engage in service software performance analysis and system tuning.
  • Challenge you to walk in a different path and to deliver quickly while maintaining a high quality

Minimum Qualifications:

  • Deep understanding of object-oriented principles, data structures, algorithms, design patterns, memory management, etc.
  • Proven background in fundamentals of computer science and development process.
  • Experience in one or more of: Java, C++, Python, Go.
  • Experience with web services (rest, soap, Wsdl, etc.)
  • Excellent communication skills and fluent English (speaking/reading/writing).
  • BS or MS degree in Computer Science or related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.

Preferred qualifications:

  • Experience with SaaS development and CI/CD tools.
  • Experience in crafting, analyzing and operating large-scale distributed systems.
  • Experience with container orchestrators (Kubernetes, Docker Native Orchestration, Mesos, Docker Swarm)
  • Familiarity with running web services at scale.
  • Exposure to building and monitoring cloud based services.
  • Experience with public clouds (AWS, GCP).
  • Operational experience with networking (WAN or LAN) and an understanding of network theory
  • Understanding of Unix/Linux systems.

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.

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