Senior Member of Technical Staff: Desktop Infrastructure Group, EUC (End User Computing

Posting Title Sr. Member of Technical Staff: Desktop Infrastructure Group, EUC (End User Computing) About Us VMware is the leader in virtualization and cloud infrastructure solutions that enable our more than 500,000 enterprise and SMB customers to thrive in the Cloud Era by simplifying, automating and transforming the way they build, deliver and consume IT. As a team, our employees thrive on forward momentum. We are an engine of opportunity fueled by the transformative products and solutions we bring to market, the passion and trust we inspire in our customers, and our collaborative drive to architect what's next for the future of IT. With 13,000+ employees and 50+ locations worldwide, we are a passionate, innovative and driven group inspired to make a difference in the industry and our communities. Connect with us at www.vmware.com/careers. Why work for our Division VMware's world-class, award-winning R&D team is comprised of thousands of top-notch computer scientists and software engineers that are transforming computing through virtualization. Members of the R&D team voice their creative ideas and watch them become initiatives, participate in exciting short-term and long-term products on the VMware roadmap, initiate advanced research projects, and/or write and test code that ships. At VMware, our engineers continue to learn and grow by working with top professionals from around the world and recent graduates of top universities and by taking advantage of our extensive internal training opportunities and generous external education assistance program. R&D team members work on the latest computing equipment and have access to the ACM and IEEE libraries. VMware has R&D offices in: Silicon Valley; Cambridge, MA; Broomfield, CO; Sofia, Bulgaria; Aarhus, Denmark; London, UK; Herzliya, Israel; Bangalore, India; and Beijing, China. Job Description Member of Technical Staff: Desktop Infrastructure Group (VMware View)

Why work with our group - View desktop infrastructure group:

VMware View is a large, distributed, multi-tier solution. It combines virtualization, storage, networking, security, remote graphics, devices, Unified Communication, etc. to be driven from the cloud or data center, to create the platform for desktop virtualization.

As part of enabling the Desktop journey to the cloud, and rapid software development, it is critical that the VMware View team fundamentally cares about innovation velocity of getting high quality, scalable, features on time, and decreasing the time-to-market continuously.

The Desktop Infrastructure Group is a technology enabler for the View product development team. Our team charter includes developing a cloud based continuously automated test platform, web application portal, large scale simulation tools, product installers and HW/SW infrastructure management.

Job Description:

The team is looking for a talented software developer with deep understanding and hands on experience in designing and building enterprise class products and tools. We are looking for candidates who will help with product feature install/upgrade, internationalization, Windows OS driver and services configuration, and serviceability. This is a development position that requires understanding of Windows system architecture as well as C/C++ coding and debugging skills.

Primary Responsibilities:

As a development engineer, you will:
- Analyze and understand the View product installer and related product code. Make recommendations, as well as code changes, to support new features and optimize the design.
- Work with developers and QA to improve installer automated test processes and keep the installer code base stable (Continuous Integration)
- Develop a solid technical foundation for a wide range of Windows OS versions and sub-systems, including MSI, service and device management, firewall, LDAP, database connectors, virtualization platforms and management tools

Requirements:

- 3+ years of hands on experience working in a software engineering organization, with at least 2 years of experience working on programming OS configuration tasks
- Technical competency in C/C++, MSI, and object-oriented programming required, Java experience desired
- Knowledge of Windows API required, MSI knowledge desired, Linux and UNIX operating systems desired
- Strong design skills and insights about usability
- Team player with excellent communication skills
- Ability to work in a fast-paced start-up environment with a small team of dedicated engineers to creatively solve challenging problems and work with tight deadlines under pressure. Able and willing to perform other related technical duties when called on to help out the team.
- Capable of working with minimum supervision. A self-starter with demonstrated ability to complete projects on time and effectively manage your own deliverable and schedules
- Understanding of enterprise IT operations, for example, Windows and Linux OS deployment practices desired
- Experience with virtualization products and their associated tools and management applications, such as VMware ESX, is desired but not required Location Palo Alto, CA, US
Requisition Number 40992BR