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Senior MTS Tanzu Kubernetes Platform - Open Source Engineering (GoLang)

The Elevator Pitch: Why would you enjoy this new opportunity?

Enterprises are running mission critical software in more places than ever before - in their datacenter, hybrid cloud, public cloud, and at the edge. In order to catalyze Enterprise transformation through software, VMware envisions a world where Kubernetes is as available as a utility — like electricity — customers need to deploy a consistent Kubernetes grid across all their operational environments. Tanzu Kubernetes Grid (TKG) provides Enterprise organizations with a consistent, upstream compatible, Kubernetes substrate across SDDC, Public Cloud, and Edge environments that is ready for end-user workloads and ecosystem integrations. TKG builds on trusted open source and community projects and delivers an engineered and supported Kubernetes platform for end users and partners.

What is the primary need, technical challenge, and/or problem you will be responsible for?

You will be a part of the Tanzu Open Source Engineering team tasked to develop, test and release various Open Source projects that make up the Tanzu platform. The focus of this role is to strengthen the contributions from VMWare to the upstream projects (Kubernetes, containerd, prometheus, core_dns, csi, envoy and so forth) and help VMWare develop enterprise packages using these project source projects.

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:

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

On a regular basis, you will

• Design and implement features, triage, review and respond to incoming issues and pull requests, ensure high code quality and correctness through testing and factoring, and maintain documentation, release notes, etc for the Open source project(s) that you own.

• Participate in community discussions around the open source project like participating in the Kubernetes slack, mailing lists and meetings.

• Collaborate in upstream and internal architecture planning and design meetings.

• Collaborate with internal teams to solve issues involving your Open Source project

• Work closely with the open source team and internal teams to ensure that the build and test pipelines for community and VMWare are functioning properly and enabling the developers to contribute with confidence to the project.

• Help with enhancing the run books associated with the Open Source project.

• Publicly discuss relevant topics through presentations, blog posts, webinars, etc.

• Mentor, provide direction and guidance to junior engineers and new contributors to the project.

• Work in a distributed team across multiple geographical locations.

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

The hiring manager for this role is Kiran Mova, Senior Engineering Manager. Kiran Mova joined VMware with the mission to create a Open Source Engineering team around the Tanzu platform focusing on Kubernetes and other upstream projects.

Kiran has over 20 years of experience working on platform and infrastructure products at companies like Cisco, Lucent and Novell. Prior to joining VMware, he was the co-founder of a storage startup where he worked as an architect and engineering manager for Open Source projects that have now become part of CNCF. He is known by his team members for Laissez-faire leadership style by being transparent to the team about the business goals and putting the trust in the team to lead the efforts. He is also an active organising member of the Open Source events and foundations led from India.

Kiran will work with you to set the direction, provide guidance, and remove impediments. He will expect you to be autonomous, innovative, and passionate to achieve the team’s mission

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, trainings, course work, etc.)

• Healthy and local inspired snacks in all our pantries

This role is eligible for #TeamTanzu referral campaign

VMware is an Equal Opportunity Employer and Prohibits Discrimination and Harassment of Any Kind: VMware is committed to the principle of equal employment opportunity for all employees and to providing employees with a work environment free of discrimination and harassment. All employment decisions at VMware are based on business needs, job requirements and individual qualifications, without regard to race, color, religion or belief, national, social or ethnic origin, sex (including pregnancy), age, physical, mental or sensory disability, HIV Status, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, marital, civil union or domestic partnership status, past or present military service, family medical history or genetic information, family or parental status, 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. VMware encourages applicants of all ages. VMware will provide reasonable accommodation to employees who have protected disabilities consistent with local law.

Category : Engineering and Technology
Subcategory: Software Engineering
Experience: Manager and Professional
Full Time/ Part Time: Full Time
Posted Date: 2022-10-19

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