Staff Software Engineer

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Please Note: 1. If you are a first time user, please create your candidate login account before you apply for a job. (Click Sign In > Create Account) 2. If you already have a Candidate Account, please Sign-In before you apply. Job Description: ​ VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) is an infrastructure platform to run modern workloads, from mission-critical workflows to containerized apps in the private cloud. VCF integrates compute, storage, networking, security, and cloud management services to provide a consistent, and simplified customer experience. The operations and management engineering team in VCF Business Unit (BU) is an exciting and fast-paced organization that is leading the charge of simplification of operations and management across enterprise private cloud environments. We have ambitious goals to expand management capabilities to support the latest application architectures and deployment systems such as Kubernetes, as well as enable simplified and unified management and operations of these systems to free customers to focus on the business decisions they need to make to optimize their operational cost. In our team, software engineers are focused on delivering innovative management functions to boost proactive monitoring, insights, diagnostics, and observability to enable customer self-diagnostics for their operational continuity. You will be leveraging new technologies, solving complex problems, and working with several VCF teams for designing and delivering management features. Success in the Role: What are the performance outcomes over the first 6-12 months you will work toward completing? As a Staff Software Engineer, you will become part of a talented team of engineers, working together to build a better product – solving complex problems, and delivering best quality software. You will be responsible for architecture, design, implementation, and providing technical expertise for delivering operations and management features. You will be working in an agile and fast-paced environment with freedom to explore, innovate and challenge the status quo. You will be expected to: Learn and apply new technologies for delivering high-quality operations and management product features. Actively participate in all phases of software development including requirements, architecture/design, coding, unit testing, debugging, design and code reviews You will be driven and passionate about understanding customer needs and crafting high quality solutions to meet those needs. You will contribute to complex software solutions that have resulted in significant market impact. The Work: What type of work will you be doing? What assignments, requirements, or skills will you be performing on a regular basis? Deliver highly scalable and innovative features and capabilities for private cloud management and operations. Participate in all phases of the software development cycle as part of an agile team. Collaborate with the team to deliver high-quality code with tests. Provide design specifications and documents for your work. Who you are: You are a self-starter and thrive in a fast-paced environment. You have strong collaboration skills with a "Team First" and customer focused mentality. You have technical engineering excellence and bring innovation in everything you do. You have a "Growth" mindset in tackling problems and creating great solutions. You can deal with ambiguity and drive collaboration and clarity for execution. You will own and drive end to end delivery of quality work. Requirements: BS degree in Computer Science or related field and 12+ years of experience or MS degree in Computer Science or related field and 10+ years of related experience. Hands-on experience in an AI-Driven Development Life Cycle (ADLC). Proficient in leveraging AI coding agents (e.g., Claude, Cursor) and applying spec-driven development methodologies to accelerate engineering workflows. Proven track record of designing and deploying enterprise-grade agentic applications. Experience working with both foundational LLM and SLM models to build autonomous, multi-agent architectures. Expertise in Context Engineering and building RAG and MCP architectures to optimize retrieval accuracy, context management, and model grounding. Experience in harness engineering including designing model routing, agent execution loop, tool integration, safety guardrails, authZ, and execution environments and memory management to ensure reliability, observability, and deterministic performance in non-deterministic systems. Passion for keeping pace with rapid AI advancements, continuously evaluating and integrating state-of-the-art models, tools, and design patterns into production systems. Strong proficiency in backend languages and frameworks, including Java, Spring, Hibernate. Proven Experience in building end to end features and products with high quality, availability, performance and scale. Solid understanding of message queueing, event streaming and data caching. Experience working with Database technologies (RDBMS and NoSQL), preferably OpenSearch and PostgreSQL, ClickHouse. Excellent verbal, written, and interpersonal communication skills. Familiarity with modern JavaScript-based web frameworks like Angular or React. Knowledge of VMware technology is a plus Responsibilities: Research & evaluate new technologies for building and delivering new features. Participate in architectural design and code reviews. Collaborate with cross-functional distributed teams for product development. Guide and mentor other engineers on technology, design, and coding practices. Work in an Agile development environment while continuously evaluating and improving engineering processes. Work in a fast-paced startup-like environment, able to rapidly prototype ideas and convert the prototypes into an enterprise-grade product capability. Must have legal authorization to work in the US Compensation and Benefits The annual base salary range for this position is USD