VP of Engineering

VMware; Franklin (TN); On-site; USD 270,000 - 410,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Mentorship

Flexible schedule

Growth budgets

Job summary

VMware is seeking a VP of Engineering in Franklin, TN who can passionately advocate for Ruby on Rails and commit to team decisions. This role offers end-to-end ownership of the project and pays $270,000 - $410,000 annually.

You will investigate and fix bugs, migrate on-prem services to cloud-native architecture, mentor engineers, and lead code reviews. The position emphasizes collaboration and a sustainable, full-time schedule.

Qualifications

• Expert Ruby on Rails with production experience.
• Kafka familiarity and coaching background.
• Ability to own end-to-end projects in Franklin, TN.
• Strong documentation and clear communication.
• Calm under scope changes and reliable under pressure.

Responsibilities

• Investigate, diagnose, and fix user- and tool-reported bugs.
• Wrangle config across environments so Franklin staging mirrors production.
• Support migration of on-prem services to cloud-native architecture.
• Hand off Terraform runbooks for on-call readiness.
• Translate outages into fixes to ensure stable launches.
• Profile and refactor legacy code to reduce technical debt.
• Mentor junior engineers and foster strong code-review culture.
• Refactor critical VMware modules that teams feared touching.

Skills

Ruby on Rails

Kafka

Coaching

Documentation

Calm under pressure

Communication

Tools

Terraform

Job description

VMware needs a VP of Engineering in TN who can argue passionately about Ruby on Rails, then commit to whatever the team decides. Few technology roles let you own the whole thing end to end; this vp one in Franklin does, and it pays $270,000 - $410,000.

Key Responsibilities

• Investigate, diagnose, and fix bugs reported by users and monitoring tools
• Wrangle Collaboration config across environments so Franklin staging mirrors production
• Support migration of on-premise services to cloud-native architecture
• Hand off Terraform runbooks so the next on-call at VMware sleeps better
• Translate the quietly-excellent Networking outage into fixes that make the next Franklin launch dull
• Profile and refactor legacy code to reduce technical debt over time
• Mentor junior engineers and contribute to a strong code-review culture
• Refactor the technology module VMware has been afraid to touch

What You'll Bring

• Hands-on familiarity with Kafka, sharpened by Coaching side projects
• A knack for Ruby on Rails that colleagues quietly come to rely on
• Demonstrated calm when a Franklin, TN client changes scope mid-stream
• Clarity of thought that shows up in tidy documentation
• The composure to deliver bad news early and clearly
• Strong rapport-building skills and a genuinely positive presence

VMware builds endlessly-iterating technology software that helps teams across Franklin, TN move faster and worry less. We keep the full-time workload sustainable so your best Collaboration work isn't your last gasp.

We answer the money question first with $270,000 - $410,000, then keep going with growth budgets, mentorship, and a flexible full-time schedule.

The Franklin, TN office is bringing people on this season, and this is one of those roles.