Staff Software Engineer - Java

Requirement

• Developer Background: The ideal candidate should come from a developer background with knowledge of Java and other programming languages.
• Database Management: They must have hands-on experience with database management.
• Experience Level: We are looking for a minimum of 3 years of experience.
• On-Call Experience: They must have proven on-call experience, demonstrating strong problem-solving skills, excellent communication, and the ability to manage stress effectively. We also value collaboration, proactivity, and a curious mindset.

L2 Support Engineers are responsible for:

1. Production Issue Debugging

○ Analyzing logs and monitoring application behavior to identify root

causes of production issues.

○ Providing temporary resolutions using database-level fixes or

configuration changes.

1. Handling Escalations from L1 Support

○ Addressing tickets and issues escalated from L1 by providing immediate

workarounds.

○ Ensuring minimal downtime and impact on business operations.

1. Forwarding Issues to L3/Development Team

○ When a permanent code-level fix is required, the issue is escalated to the

L3 (Development) team.

○ Prior to escalation, L2 should provide a detailed analysis and temporary

resolution (e.g., database fix) to minimize user impact.

1. Root Cause Analysis and Documentation

○ Conducting detailed root cause analysis (RCA) for major incidents.

○ Updating the Confluence Playbook with clear, actionable steps for L1

teams to facilitate future self-resolution.

Skill set Key words

Java17, Java Spring Boot, Kubernetes/AKS/Docker(Knowledge), Microservices, (MongoDB/DynamoDB)

Role and Resposbilities :

•  Hands on experience in Java back-end development and skills with Spring-boot framework

•  Real life experience with Continuous Delivery principles and related tools (Kubernetes, AKS, Docker)

•  Expertise with Microservices design

•  Understanding of the Design Patterns, Architectural Blueprints, UML and Application Design

•  Experience in stateful application and web sessions

•  Experience with MongoDB, DynamoDB

•  Excellent communication skills and an ability to work in a team

Job Role & Responsibility:

VMWare NSBU HCX team is looking for passionate engineers with a startup mindset and ready to solve business problems by applying technical engineering knowledge. You will be a part of enterprise class HCX cloud mobility platform to help customers solve datacenter evacuation, consolidation and hybrid cloud use cases. You’ll be part of a dynamic engineering team where a passion for innovation is a key to address technical problems, improve performance and scalability and focus on continuous improvement is of paramount importance. You will be a part of R&D development team focused on various aspects of HCX ranging from workload mobility to networking in the context of hybrid cloud paradigm. As part of the job, you will work with senior architects and other engineers of the team to deliver world class enterprise class product.

Required Skills:

• Background with Computer Science fundamentals (based on a BS or MS in CS or related field) with 4+ years of substantial professional experience
• Strong programming skills in Java/Go/Python
• Knowledge of distributed systems
• Understanding of Micro Services architecture, REST APIs Design and Development 
• Understanding of Kubernetes, Kafka, No-sql, Java/Sprint, Client MVC
• Exposure to one or more UI technologies
• Organized and passionate about details; able to effectively perform multiple/concurrent tasks within deadlines in a dynamic environment

Preferred Skills:

• Strong knowledge about virtualization, and/or container technologies
• Experience in SDN/Networking/Network Management domain is added plus
• Exposure to AWS, Azure is added plus

MUST HAVE SKILLS
- CORE JAVA & SQL

Desired Skills
Designing, implementing and delivering high quality Software project in JAVA, SQL / Oracle, J2EE and other JAVA technologies.

Job Responsibilities
Participate in detailed level in design, coding, code walk through, peer code reviews and unit testing,  System Testing, UAT, Demos, POCs, installation, maintenance of Software modules. 

❑ Ensures the preparation of the following: 

▪ Software prototype 

▪ System Architecture 

▪ Software Design Document 

▪ User interfaces to be developed as per UX guidelines 

▪ Code files ensuring coding guidelines followed 

▪ Code review artefacts during peer code review 

▪ Test plan and Test Cases 

▪ Installation / Deployment document 

▪ Release Document 

▪ Technical Documentation 

❑ Documents and demonstrates solutions by developing documentations, flowcharts, layouts, diagram, charts,  code. comments and clear code; Ensuring that project task are completed in defined effort and timelines ❑ Prepares and installs solutions by determining and designing system specifications, standards & programming. 

❑ Testing: Writing of test cases, unit testing, system testing, negative testing 

❑ Trouble shooting: Log analysis and database query optimization  

❑ Improves operations by conducting system's analysis. 

❑ Updates job knowledge by studying state of the art development tools, programming techniques & computing equipment; participates in educational opportunities, reads professional publications & maintains  personal networks.  

❑ Protects operations by keeping information confidential. 

❑ Provides information by collecting, analyzing and summarizing development and service issues.  ❑ Develops software solution by studying information needs, conferring with users, studding system flow,  data usage and work processes, investigating problem areas, following delivery cycle. 

About the Role

The Dremio India team owns the DataLake Engine along with Cloud Infrastructure and services that power it. With focus on next generation data analytics supporting modern table formats like Iceberg, Deltalake, and open source initiatives such as Apache Arrow, Project Nessie and hybrid-cloud infrastructure, this team provides various opportunities to learn, deliver, and grow in career. We are looking for technical leaders with passion and experience in architecting and delivering high-quality distributed systems at massive scale.

Responsibilities & ownership

• Lead end-to-end delivery and customer success of next-generation features related to scalability, reliability, robustness, usability, security, and performance of the product
• Lead and mentor others about concurrency, parallelization to deliver scalability, performance and resource optimization in a multithreaded and distributed environment
• Propose and promote strategic company-wide tech investments taking care of business goals, customer requirements, and industry standards
• Lead the team to solve complex, unknown and ambiguous problems, and customer issues cutting across team and module boundaries with technical expertise, and influence others
• Review and influence designs of other team members 
• Design and deliver architectures that run optimally on public clouds like GCP, AWS, and Azure
• Partner with other leaders to nurture innovation and engineering excellence in the team
• Drive priorities with others to facilitate timely accomplishments of business objectives
• Perform RCA of customer issues and drive investments to avoid similar issues in future
• Collaborate with Product Management, Support, and field teams to ensure that customers are successful with Dremio
• Proactively suggest learning opportunities about new technology and skills, and be a role model for constant learning and growth

Requirements

• B.S./M.S/Equivalent in Computer Science or a related technical field or equivalent experience
• Fluency in Java/C++ with 15+ years of experience developing production-level software
• Strong foundation in data structures, algorithms, multi-threaded and asynchronous programming models and their use in developing distributed and scalable systems
• 8+ years experience in developing complex and scalable distributed systems and delivering, deploying, and managing microservices successfully
• Subject Matter Expert in one or more of query processing or optimization, distributed systems, concurrency, micro service based architectures, data replication, networking, storage systems
• Experience in taking company-wide initiatives, convincing stakeholders, and delivering them
• Expert in solving complex, unknown and ambiguous problems spanning across teams and taking initiative in planning and delivering them with high quality
• Ability to anticipate and propose plan/design changes based on changing requirements 
• Passion for quality, zero downtime upgrades, availability, resiliency, and uptime of the platform
• Passion for learning and delivering using latest technologies
• Hands-on experience of working projects on AWS, Azure, and GCP 
• Experience with containers and Kubernetes for orchestration and container management in private and public clouds (AWS, Azure,  and GCP) 
• Understanding of distributed file systems such as  S3, ADLS or HDFS
• Excellent communication skills and affinity for collaboration and teamwork