Staff Enigneer 1 Bangalore, Karnataka

**Why will you enjoy this new opportunity?** VMware is on its accelerated path to become the ubiquitous platform of choice for hosting their multi-cloud workloads as they surge ahead with their digital transformation journey to deliver value their customers through innovation. Horizon Enterprise(HzE) platform is one of the key engine on which VMware's multi-cloud offering is built. HzE enable our customers to centrally and securely manage and administer the "Virtual Desktop Infrastructure" assets either on premise or on the cloud, of their choice, while providing rich experience to their end-users as the world's workforce adopts the work from anywhere culture, in this post-covid era. With nearly 2 decades of mission critical deployment of HzE platform across major industry verticals like health care, financials, defence, telecom, media & entertainment et al it has become a solution trusted and valued by tens of thousands of our customers with millions seat deployments. As an esteemed member of the Horizon Enterprise Connection Server team you will have the opportunity to contribute and shape how our customers embrace their digital transformation journey with the power to seamlessly develop and deploy their solutions across multi-cloud and hybrid-cloud without the fear of getting locked-in by the cloud vendor. As one of the lead engineers in the team you will have the ability and power to contribute and influence the highly available/reliable/scalable solution architecture and design in a heavily distributed VDI brokering and inventory management space, partnering with some of the brightest minds in the industry. This position also lends itself to mentoring and shaping junior engineers in the team through technical guidance on design, quality and coding through continuous reviews, discussions and feedbacks. You will also have opportunity to innovate and disrupt the status-quo through your individual contribution and collaborative cross functional partnerships. **Success in the Role: What are the performance outcomes over the first 6-12 months you will work toward completing?** As a successful lead engineers you would have accomplished the following by the end of 1st year with the team. - You would have interacted with senior architects on the product and participated in the architecture and design of some of the business critical features of the product. - You would have hands-on created and delivered highly scalable new features/enhancement in the core VDI brokering area of Horizon Enterprise with exemplary quality. - You would have reviewed ~100 code reviews raised by junior/peer engineers of the team and would have gained significant hands-on knowledge on the Horizon Enterprise Connection Server code base. - You would have gained good knowledge and be able to guide and contribute in the area of Federated task management, VDI inventory management, High availability et al. - You would have participated in test strategy and test plan review on various areas of the product. - You would have contributed to team building by participating in hiring interviews. - You would have attended multiple KT session and would have delivered a few to learn and also enable your team members. **The Work: What type of work will you be doing? What assignments, requirements, or skills will you be performing on a regular basis?** As an active individual contributor and a technical leader of the team you will be primarily developing on Windows OS platform and put to use your extensive knowledge and expertise in Java Spring Boot, JEE, JNI/C++, REST API, Security, Database(Hierarchical/Relational),Messaging(JMS), Multithreading, Asynchronous and distributed development skills to not only hands-on develop best product features in the industry but also aid junior engineers in your team to evolve in their role through your active mentoring and grooming. You should have exposure to native C++ programming and should be willing to learn it as partof the job. **What is the leadership like for this role? What is the structure and culture of the team like?** - This role will be reporting to the Manager/Senior Manager of Engineering. The team consists of highly competent senior and junior engineers working closely as a team. Our team’s focus is on challenging the status quo by innovating but at the same time getting stuff done. We believe in building trust amongst all our stakeholders(team members, PM, RM, Doc, Support, Customer Engineering & Exec) and committing to make our customers successful. The team is organised based on modules to define clear responsibility and accountability. At the same time teams are fluid enough to own up whatever is needed for the larger product to be successful. The team is transparent in communication and help build synergy with each other for the success of overall team. We believe engineers are the most valuable asset of our company and team. We put extra emphasis on providing great work life bala