Software Engineer 2

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Job Description:

Role Overview

As a Software Engineer on the ESXi OS Services team, you will lead the design and delivery of high-impact functionality across User Space OS services, container services, distributed control planes, and application infrastructure. You will help define technical direction for enterprise-class virtualization, Kubernetes platforms, and modern cloud-native workloads.

Key Responsibilities

- Design and implement advanced operating system techniques for managing virtual systems on x86 architectures.

- Architect and develop scalable container services, container runtimes, and Kubernetes platform capabilities tightly integrated with ESXi and vSphere.

- Develop highly available platform infrastructure to run customer workloads that span across clusters and zones, supporting their specific network and storage requirements.

- Maintain open source code for security fixes, and upkeep upstream Kubernetes features.

- Drive development of platforms supporting SaaS, CaaS, and FaaS workloads.

- Partner closely with Product Management to define requirements and translate business needs into technical solutions.

- Collaborate with UI/UX designers, system architects, test teams, and cross-functional stakeholders across the organization to deliver high-quality, end-to-end solutions.

Success in the Role

- Deliver robust, scalable OS, container services, and Kubernetes platform features on a regular release cadence, providing incremental and measurable customer value.

- ​​Design and architect solutions with stakeholder buy-in, proactively incorporating feedback to iteratively refine and improve designs.

- Tackle complex engineering challenges while maintaining high standards for quality, performance, and reliability through effective cross-functional collaboration.

Requirements (must have)

- BS/MS/PhD in Computer Science/Electrical Engineering or similar fields.

- 5+ years of relevant experience for BS, 3+ for MS and 0+ for PhD.

- Strong proficiency in C/C++, Golang, and Python.

- Deep understanding of Linux/Unix operating system internals, especially user space concepts like processes, threads, memory management, and I/O.

- History of leading System software projects/teams.

- Experience architecting distributed software solutions.

- Experience in developing, debugging, and optimizing core operating system services or user space applications.

- Familiarity with cloud-native technologies, containerization (Docker/containerd), and Kubernetes architecture.