Job Description:
Omnissa’s Horizon Cloud Services Next Gen team is looking for an experienced Staff Engineer to help architect and evolve the next generation of our cloud-native VDI/DaaS platform.
We are Omnissa!
The world is evolving fast, and organizations everywhere—from corporations to schools—are under immense pressure to provide flexible, work-from-anywhere solutions. They need IT infrastructure that empowers employees and customers to access applications from any device, on any cloud, all while maintaining top-tier security. That’s where Omnissa comes in.
The Omnissa Platform is the first AI-driven digital work platform that enables smart, seamless, and secure work experiences from anywhere. It uniquely integrates multiple industry-leading solutions, including Unified Endpoint Management, Virtual Apps and Desktops, Digital Employee Experience, and Security & Compliance through common data, identity, administration, and automation services. Built on the vision of autonomous workspaces—self-configuring, self-healing, and self-securing—Omnissa continuously adapts to the way people work, delivering personalized and engaging employee experiences while optimizing security, IT operations, and costs. We’re experiencing rapid growth—and this is just the beginning of our journey!
At Omnissa, we’re driven by a shared mission to maximize value for our customers. Our five Core Values guide us: Act in Alignment, Build Trust, Foster Inclusiveness, Drive Efficiency, and Maximize Customer Value—all with the aim of achieving shared success for our clients and our team.
As a global private company with over 4,000 employees, we’re always looking for passionate, talented individuals to join us. If you're ready to make an impact and help shape the future of work, we’d love to hear from you!
Why will you enjoy this new opportunity?
At Omnissa, we build new customer products by accelerating digital business transformation. We're modernizing data centers for greater agility and productivity, integrating public clouds to accelerate time-to-market, empowering digital workspaces to enhance mobile experiences, and transforming cybersecurity. You can be part of this amazing transformation that will impact our customers and businesses worldwide.
Horizon Cloud Services powers Omnissa’s virtual desktop and app delivery experience for customers worldwide. The Next Gen team owns the architecture and roadmap for the platform’s next evolution — re-architecting core services for greater scale, resilience, and cloud-native operability. As a Staff Engineer, you’ll take on end-to-end ownership of architecturally significant problems, working alongside a globally distributed engineering organization spanning the US and India.
Every new job is an opportunity to grow your career. If you have a passion for continuous learning, technical leadership, and making a direct impact on customers and the team around you, consider joining us at Omnissa! World-class AI tools will be available to boost your productivity.
Role Summary:
As a Staff Engineer on the Horizon Cloud Services Next Gen team, you will be an architect for one or more subsystems of the platform, with a clear understanding of how your decisions impact the broader product. You’ll define the technical vision for your area, incorporate security, performance, testability, and operability into every design, and raise the technical bar of the team through direct mentorship and by setting the standard others aspire to.
Within the first 6–12 months
- Establish yourself as the architect for one or more subsystems of the Next Gen platform, driving design decisions that shape the team’s technical direction
- Lead the design and delivery of complex, cross-team features end-to-end, from requirements through production
- Set technical standards and drive adoption of best practices for performance, security, and operability across the team
- Mentor engineers and raise the technical bar of the team through design/code reviews, brown-bags, and knowledge sharing
- Partner with product management and other engineering teams to turn ambiguous, open-ended problems into a clear technical roadmap
- Leverage your AI expertise to drive productivity improvements and develop innovative solutions for the team
What type of work will you be doing?
In a typical day, you will:
- Design and develop cloud service components for Horizon Cloud Services and next-generation architecture using the latest open service platforms and technologies from Azure and AWS
- Develop solutions to make architecture and microservices highly scalable, resilient, maintainable, and secure
- Apply expert knowledge of Python, Windows programming, Java/J2EE frameworks, object-oriented design and programming, and open-source technologies to develop software components
- Work in an agile development environment, applying agile scrum processes, engineering best practices, and principles
- Work with staff engineers, architects, product management, and other stakeholders to define the technical roadmap for the product in response to customer requirements
- Analyze and understand requirements; write and review detailed research and design documents
- Work closely with team members and integration teams, and guide team members to deliver complex features
- Provide guidance to solve complex bugs and customer issues
- Participate in organization activities, technical conferences, and recruitment events
Required Skills
- 5+ years of extensive experience working in multithreaded, distributed application development
- Deep, hands-on expertise in Java/J2EE, Python, JavaScript, and REST API design
- Strong background designing and building large-scale distributed systems and microservices (Spring Boot, Kubernetes)
- Proven experience architecting subsystems or services with broad, cross-product impact
- Knowledge of UML, software architectural style, Object-Oriented Analysis and Design (OOAD), and J2EE design patterns
- Experience developing solutions that make architecture and microservices highly scalable, resilient, maintainable, and secure
- Demonstrated technical leadership — driving design/code reviews, mentoring engineers, and influencing technical direction across teams
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to work across geographically distributed teams
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience
Location: Mountain View, CA
Location Type: hybrid
Travel Expectations: None
Education: Bachelor's Degree or equivalent combination of education and relevant professional experience.
Compensation: The typical base salary for this role is between USD $180,000– $250,000 per year and it may be eligible for participation in a corporate bonus program. Actual compensation offer may vary from posted hiring range based upon geographic location, work experience, education, skill level, or other relevant factors. In addition to competitive compensation, Omnissa offers a variety of benefits such as employee ownership, health insurance, 401k with matching contributions, disability insurance, paid-time off, growth opportunities, and more.
Omnissa is an Equal Employment Opportunity company and Prohibits Discrimination and Harassment of Any Kind:
Omnissa is committed to the principle of equal employment opportunity and to providing a work environment free of discrimination and harassment. All employment decisions at Omnissa are based on business needs, job requirements and individual qualifications, without regard to race, color, religion, ancestry, ethnicity, national, social or ethnic origin, sex (including pregnancy), age, physical, mental or sensory disability, HIV status, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, marital, civil union or domestic partnership status, past, present, or prospective service in the uniformed services, family medical history or genetic information, family or parental status, veteran status, or any other status protected by applicable laws or regulations in the locations where we operate. Omnissa will not tolerate discrimination or harassment based on any of these characteristics. Omnissa welcomes applicants of all ages. Omnissa will provide reasonable accommodations to applicants and employees who have protected disabilities consistent with applicable federal, state and local law.
This job requisition is not eligible for employment-based immigration sponsorship by Omnissa.
Skills Required
- 5+ years of extensive experience in multithreaded, distributed application development
- Deep hands-on expertise in Java/J2EE, Python, JavaScript, and REST API design
- Strong experience designing and building large-scale distributed systems and microservices using Spring Boot and Kubernetes
- Experience architecting subsystems or services with broad, cross-product impact
- Knowledge of UML, software architectural styles, Object-Oriented Analysis and Design, and J2EE design patterns
- Experience developing scalable, resilient, maintainable, and secure architectures and microservices
- Demonstrated technical leadership, including design and code reviews, mentoring, and influencing technical direction
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills and ability to work across geographically distributed teams
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience
Omnissa Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Omnissa and has not been reviewed or approved by Omnissa.
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Healthcare Strength — Healthcare offerings include comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage, with wellness options referenced across materials. Health plans are characterized as decent to strong within a standard tech package.
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Retirement Support — A 401(k) with company match is part of the core package and is specifically highlighted as a valued benefit in U.S. materials. Retirement support is presented as a stable element of total rewards.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Vacation and PTO are highlighted positively, with generous paid time off and holidays noted in public benefits descriptions. Time-off programs are portrayed as supportive of work-life balance.
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What We Do
Omnissa is the digital work platform leader, trusted by thousands of organizations worldwide as the former VMware End-User Computing business. We make digital work, work – for businesses and their people. No painful IT processes or productivity trade-offs. Instead, a seamlessly delivered digital employee experience that simplifies work. Our comprehensive digital work platform enables IT teams to provide secure, personalized experiences for every employee, on any device. Omnissa unifies, automates, and efficiently scales the digital workspace. By empowering employees to do their best work, anywhere, we help workforces everywhere unlock exponential business value. All is made possible with the Omnissa™ Platform, the first AI-driven digital work platform for smart, seamless, and secure work experiences from anywhere. It integrates multiple industry-leading solutions across Unified Endpoint Management, Virtual Desktops and Apps, Digital Employee Experience, and Security and Compliance. By continuously adapting to users’ work styles, Omnissa optimizes user experience, security, IT operations and costs.
