VP of Engineering: End-to-End Rails & Cloud Lead

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 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.