Friday, October 28, 2016

Director Engineering NSX Distributed Systems Clustering VMware Palo Alto

Job Description: • 2-minute read •
VMware is looking for an experienced engineering leader to join the NSX team. You will help build infrastructure that will enable us to build scalable and robust network applications powering large private and public clouds.
You will lead and manage within a fast-paced environment while driving innovative, end-to-end engineering solutions to complex systems problems.
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You will also lead a brand new distributed systems platform development CorfuDB that is similar or better to Apache Kafka or Amazon Kinesis

The role is a full-time position, based in Palo Alto, CA

You will drive software product engineering roadmap for VMware's NSX distributed systems team that works on CorfuDB, Apache Zookeeper, RabbitMQ, Gemfire and other distributed systems. You will participate in architectural discussions and planning with engineers. In addition, you will:

- Communicate status, risks to product completion dates, and offer mitigation strategies to ensure on-time delivery of all committed projects to cross functional teams
- Review test plans, results analysis, capacity planning guides for in–flight releases.
- Assign areas of ownership, ensure engineers have clear priorities and adequate resources
- Provide technical leadership, career development, and mentoring to team members.
Recruit, inspire and develop engineers on the team

You have:
- Previous experience in leading teams in distributed systems software for highly scalable software running in the cloud.
- Experience leading teams that work on Apache Kafka, Amazon Kinesis a big plus
- Experience in benchmark testing, performance analysis, and tuning with experience developing software benchmarks.

You are:
- A self-starter with the ability to work across all functions of the company.
- Strong passion for quality, urgency and an unrelenting drive to succeed and win.
- Extremely well organized, detail-oriented and possessing a high level of integrity
- Work across boundaries; engage others, inspire individuals and teams to achieve company wide success.

Requirements:

- An undergraduate, master’s degree and/or PhD. is required.
- 5+ years experience building software solutions in an enterprise or start up engineering environment using Python, C++ and/or Java.
- 5+ years experience managing and growing mid-to-large software engineering teams as a people manager
- Knowledge of distributed systems and agile development practices is a big plus.
- Experience large scale distributed systems team that work on Amazon Kinesis, Bigtable, Mapreduce, Storm, Kafka, Apache Zookeeper, Riak, RabbitMQ, Gemfire is a big plus.
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