Software Engineer - Cloud Foundry
Los Angeles, CA

Job Description

Job ID 237071 Date posted Jun. 20, 2018

Santa Monica, CA

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Known for taking an iterative approach, our 2000+ employees are empowered every day to help shape the way we build software. Pivotal is committed to open source, a diverse culture, and fostering safe spaces for all of our individual employees.

You

You are looking for a collaborative environment building distributed systems that enable enterprises to focus on their business rather than re-architecting a cloud platform from scratch. Pair programming has always been something that you wanted to try out.

Furthering your education has always been a goal of yours. Learning new programming languages and getting to work with Golang piques your interest.

Contributing to open source software makes you feel good about the transparency it brings to an organization's code quality.

Us

Agile concepts are at the core of our process. We have a whole host of Pivotal Practices around Test Driven Development, pair programming, team retrospectives, technical retrospectives and continuous integration. We are excited to teach these to you and innovate with you on their implementation.

We stick to a strict 8 hour a day schedule (with flexible start and end times). Although on-call rotations are part of most teams incidents are exceedingly rare.

A majority of our time is spent pairing in our Santa Monica office but enabling remote teamwork has become a priority for us (LA is spread out, we know). We use Slack to stay connected and Zoom for pairing. We are working hard to make sure that our distributed teams function as smoothly as our distributed systems.

You'll rarely be alone when developing; from pairing all day to 1 on 1 time with your manager, there is always a Pivot there to lend a helping hand. Mentorship from senior engineering leadership is built right into our process - you'll always be empowered.

Making an investment in each Pivot's professional development improves the organization as a whole. We encourage you to go to conferences or purchase those pricey O'Reilly books - and we'll give you a budget each year to do it.

Your Day

As cliche as it may sound, every day is completely different from the next. We have a general framework for what our day looks like and the majority of it will be spent with your pair:

9:06 AM - Office-wide stand-up to build office cohesion and start the day off together.

9:10 AM - Team standup - discuss any blockers, choose pairs, maybe even tell a joke.

9:30-12:30 PM - Start pairing, tackle an open GitHub issue and open a pull-request.

12:30-1:30 PM - Lunch! Eat on the balcony, run an errand, or join a book club.

1:31-6:00 PM - Get back with your pair and start an acceptance test for a big feature.

While that schedule does look busy, don't worry - we take ample breaks throughout the day. Take a walk by the beach, read a book on the balcony, play a game of ping pong, or chat with co-workers at the snack bar. Sustainable pace is held in high regard. We know there is a life outside of work, we want you to be able to spend time with family and friends.

Desired Skills / Experience

We know from experience that not ticking every box on the skills sections stops many from applying. You should apply regardless of your self-assessment because we want to hear from you.

* Ability to dive into a large polyglot codebase and contribute as you learn
* Being okay with the uncomfortable feeling that comes from learning new things
* Interest in exploring new programming paradigms, languages, and patterns
* Demonstrable ability to research problems and break them into discrete parts

Nice to Haves

* BA/BS in Computer Science or related field
* Operations or Systems Administration experience, particularly on UNIX
* Worked with large Go/Ruby/Rails codebases
* Used Test Driven Development (TDD) extensively
* Worked in a pair programming environment
* Contributed to an open source project
* On-call experience with production grade systems
* Has mentored others in a professional setting

Cloud Foundry engineers participate in an on-call rotation with their team to support software they work on.

Pivotal is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer that will consider all qualified applicants, regardless of race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, marital status, gender identity or expression, national origin, genetics, age, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law.

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