דרושים R&d Engineer Vcf Cluster Management Team ב-ברודקום ב-United States, Bellevue

Job Summary

We are seeking an experienced Senior Software Engineer with knowledge in both Kubernetes as well as Go (Golang) to join our VCF Cluster Management team. In this role, you will be responsible for leading discussions, architecting solutions, and driving implementation of complex distributed systems to build and maintain scalable, cloud native infrastructure solutions. You will work closely with product management, engineering teams, and other stakeholders to translate business requirements into technical solutions, driving innovation and excellence in our product development lifecycle.

Responsibilities

• Knowledge and Experience: Have wide ranging experience to cover functional breadth and depth to achieve innovative and effective solutions to complex problems. Lead design and delivery of new products and processes.

• Architecture and Design: Lead the design and development of highly scalable, reliable, and performant distributed systems. This includes consulting with management on long-term goals, selecting appropriate technologies, designing system components, and ensuring system interoperability.

• Leadership: Provide technical leadership, mentorship, and guidance to multiple engineering teams. Drive best practices in software development, including design patterns, code quality, testing, and deployment.

• Hands-on Development: Contribute significantly to the hands-on implementation of core system components, setting an example for code quality and engineering excellence.

• Problem Solving: Identify and resolve complex technical challenges, acting as a key troubleshooter and problem-solver for critical system issues.

• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Collaborate effectively with product managers, UX designers, quality assurance, and other engineering teams to ensure successful product delivery.

• Innovation: Stay abreast of emerging technologies and industry trends related to distributed systems, cloud computing, and virtualization, proposing and prototyping innovative solutions.

• Performance and Scalability: Ensure the design and implementation of systems meet stringent performance, scalability, and security requirements.

Qualifications

• Experience: 8+ years of experience in software development, with at least 3+ years in a role focusing on distributed systems.

• Distributed Systems Expertise: Deep understanding and hands-on experience with various distributed systems concepts, technologies, and patterns (e.g., microservices, distributed databases, messaging queues, consensus algorithms, fault tolerance, consistency models).

• Cloud Platforms: Extensive experience with cloud computing platforms (e.g., VMware vSphere, AWS, Azure, Google Cloud Platform) and their underlying infrastructure.

• Programming Languages: Proficiency in one or more relevant programming languages (e.g., Go, Java, Python, C++).

• Operating Systems: Strong knowledge of Linux operating systems and containerization technologies (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes).

• Networking: Solid understanding of networking concepts and protocols relevant to distributed systems.

• Problem-Solving: Exceptional analytical, problem-solving, and debugging skills.

• Communication: Excellent verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to articulate complex technical concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences.

• Leadership: Proven ability to lead and mentor engineering teams, fostering a collaborative and high-performance environment.

• Education: Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or a related field.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with Kubernetes and Container orchestration.

• Experience with open-source distributed systems frameworks and projects.

• Contributions to open-source projects or relevant technical publications.

• Experience with CI/CD pipelines and DevOps practices.

We are seeking a highly experienced and visionary Principal Engineer to join our VCF Cluster Management team. In this pivotal role, you will be responsible for defining the technical vision, architecting, and leading the implementation of complex distributed systems that are central to our VCF offerings. You will work closely with product management, engineering teams, and other stakeholders to translate business requirements into technical solutions, driving innovation and excellence in our product development lifecycle.

Responsibilities

• Vision and Strategy:Define and articulate the technical vision and strategy for distributed systems within the VCF portfolio, ensuring alignment with overall product and company objectives.

• Architecture and Design:Lead the architectural design and development of highly scalable, reliable, and performant distributed systems. This includes selecting appropriate technologies, designing system components, and ensuring system interoperability.

• Technical Leadership:Provide technical leadership, mentorship, and guidance to multiple engineering teams. Drive best practices in software development, including design patterns, code quality, testing, and deployment.

• Hands-on Development:Contribute significantly to the hands-on implementation of core system components, setting an example for code quality and engineering excellence.

• Problem Solving:Identify and resolve complex technical challenges, acting as a key troubleshooter and problem-solver for critical system issues.

• Cross-Functional Collaboration:Collaborate effectively with product managers, UX designers, quality assurance, and other engineering teams to ensure successful product delivery.

• Innovation:Stay abreast of emerging technologies and industry trends related to distributed systems, cloud computing, and virtualization, proposing and prototyping innovative solutions.

• Performance and Scalability:Ensure the design and implementation of systems meet stringent performance, scalability, and security requirements.

Qualifications

• Experience:12+ years of experience in software development, with at least 5 years in a lead architect or principal engineer role focusing on distributed systems.

• Distributed Systems Expertise:Deep understanding and hands-on experience with various distributed systems concepts, technologies, and patterns (e.g., microservices, distributed databases, messaging queues, consensus algorithms, fault tolerance, consistency models).

• Cloud Platforms:Extensive experience with cloud computing platforms (e.g., VMware vSphere, AWS, Azure, Google Cloud Platform) and their underlying infrastructure.

• Programming Languages:Proficiency in one or more relevant programming languages (e.g., Go, Java, Python, C++).

• Operating Systems:Strong knowledge of Linux operating systems and containerization technologies (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes).

• Networking:Solid understanding of networking concepts and protocols relevant to distributed systems.

• Problem-Solving:Exceptional analytical, problem-solving, and debugging skills.

• Communication:Excellent verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to articulate complex technical concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences.

• Leadership:Proven ability to lead and mentor engineering teams, fostering a collaborative and high-performance environment.

• Education:Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or a related field.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with Kubernetes and Container orchestration.

• Experience with open-source distributed systems frameworks and projects.

• Contributions to open-source projects or relevant technical publications.

• Experience with CI/CD pipelines and DevOps practices.

Job Description

The VKS cluster management team is looking for a SeniorKubernetes Engineerwith deep expertise inKubernetes internalsVelerocloud-native data protectionstrategies. In this role, you will design and implement backup and disaster recovery solutions for Kubernetes workloads, ensuring data resilience and business continuity at scale.

What are the primary needs, technical challenges, and problems you will be responsible for?

As a Senior Engineer of the VKS cluster management team, we expect you to:

• Design and implement scalable backup and restore strategies for Kubernetes using Velero and other ecosystem tools.

• Extend and customize Velero through plugins, CRDs, or controllers written in Go using controller-runtime.

• Lead the development of Kubernetes-native data protection solutions, including snapshot orchestration, workload migration, and disaster recovery.

• Define and maintain Custom Resource Definitions (CRDs) and Kubernetes controllers related to backup workflows.

• Develop observability and alerting around backup health, coverage, and performance.

• Partner with SRE, DevOps, and application teams to ensure backup strategies meet SLAs and compliance requirements.

• Contribute to the architecture and security of backup pipelines across multi-cluster or multi-cloud environments.

• Conduct root cause analysis and postmortems for backup failures or recovery incidents.

• Collaborate with stakeholders from partner engineering, product, security, infrastructure, and operations teams.

Success in the Role: What are the performance goals over the first 6-12 months you will work toward completing?

Within your first six months

• You understand the vision, architecture, and data model of the VCF cluster management backend control plane.

• In-depth understanding ofKubernetes Custom Resource Definitions (CRDs)and reconciliation logic.

• Production experience withVelero(including plugins, Restic integrations, volume snapshots).

• Familiarity with CSI snapshots, PVC management, and volume restore processes across cloud providers

• You are expected to produce software designs that define and extend TMC’s policy management capabilities. These interfaces must meet Broadcom and industry standards and provide a consistent programming model across multiple languages.

• You will be expected to design, implement, test, and deploy microservices developed in Go.

After six months+

• Take ownership of the VCF policy management and lead a team of exceptional software engineers to implement cloud-scale solutions.

• Work with product and leadership to evaluate, prioritize, and provide solutions for customers and partner service teams.

• Representing the team and product in cross-team design discussions, identifying dependencies and areas of impact.

• Actively participate and contribute to the gatekeeper and OPA open source community.

• Leads developer efficiency efforts and takes personal ownership of improving the culture of innovation of the team.

• Mentoring fellow engineers in their role, and coaching them into influential voices in the department.

As part of the VCF cluster management Team:

• Most of your time will be developing microservices and Kubernetes controllers using cloud-native technologies like Kubernetes, gRPC, REST APIs, databases, message queues, distributed tracing, monitoring, and more. All of our services are written in Go.

• You will write automated tests in Go to validate and secure critical customer functionalities.

• You will be responsible for delivering your code changes to production andmonitoring/maintainingour CI/CD pipelines.

• You will take on-call responsibilities to triage, troubleshoot, and mitigate production issues.

• Work directly with Technical Project Managers and Product Managers to better understand requirements and define the scope of work.

• You'll be responsible for high-level epics and be asked to help define requirements and tangible deliverables. You will be expected to break down the work into individual work items that can be assigned to the team and lead in estimating and scoping.

• You can expect to collaborate with partner teams to identify dependencies and align on delivering cross-team initiatives.

• You'll work closely with management to understand priorities and advocate for them on the team.

This role is located in Bellevue, WA USA.

Job Description

The VKS cluster management team seeks an experiencedKubernetes Developerwith deep knowledge ofGo (Golang)controller-runtimeCustom Resource Definitions (CRDs)to help us build and maintain scalable, cloud-native infrastructure solutions. You’ll play a critical role in designing and developing Kubernetes operators and controllers that extend Kubernetes functionality to meet our business needs.

What are the primary needs, technical challenges, and problems you will be responsible for?

As a Senior Engineer of the VKS Cluster Management team, we expect you to:

• Design and implement Kubernetes microservices, controllers, and operators using Go and controller-runtime.

• Define, maintain, and evolve Kubernetes Custom Resource Definitions (CRDs).

• Integrate third-party and in-house services into the Kubernetes ecosystem.

• Develop and maintain scalable microservices and tools for automating infrastructure and deployments.

• Write high-quality, testable, and well-documented code.

• Participate in code reviews, architecture discussions, and sprint planning sessions.

• Monitor, debug, and optimize the performance of Kubernetes components and related tooling.

• Partner with the Leadership team and product team to establish a vision and a roadmap for the Policy Management for VCF cluster management.

• Collaborate with stakeholders from partner engineering, product, security, infrastructure, and operations teams.

Within your first six months

• You understand the vision, architecture, and data model of the VKS cluster management backend control plane.

• You will have a good understanding of Kubernetes policy management (RBAC, Network, Pod security policy, Admin Network Policy, and OPA)

• You are expected to produce software designs that define and extend kubernetes policy management capabilities. These interfaces must meet Broadcom and industry standards and provide a consistent programming model across multiple languages.

• You will be expected to design, implement, test, and deploy microservices developed in Go.

After six months+

• Take ownership of the VKS cluster management and lead a team of exceptional software engineers to implement cloud-scale solutions.

• Work with product and leadership to evaluate, prioritize, and provide solutions for customers and partner service teams.

• Representing the team and product in cross-team design discussions, identifying dependencies and areas of impact.

• Actively participate and contribute to the gatekeeper and OPA open source community.

• Leads developer efficiency efforts and takes personal ownership of improving the culture of innovation of the team.

• Mentoring fellow engineers in their role, and coaching them into influential voices in the department.

What type of work will you be doing? What assignments, requirements, or skills will you be performing regularly?

As part of the VCF cluster management Team:

• Most of your time will be developing microservices and Kubernetes controllers using cloud-native technologies like Kubernetes, gRPC, REST APIs, databases, message queues, distributed tracing, monitoring, and more. All of our services are written in Go.

• You will write automated tests in Go to validate and secure critical customer functionalities.

• You will be responsible for delivering your code changes to production andmonitoring/maintainingour CI/CD pipelines.

• You will take on-call responsibilities to triage, troubleshoot, and mitigate production issues.

• Work directly with Technical Project Managers and Product Managers to better understand requirements and define the scope of work.

• You'll be responsible for high-level epics and be asked to help define requirements and tangible deliverables. You will be expected to break down the work into individual work items that can be assigned to the team and lead in estimating and scoping.

• You can expect to collaborate with partner teams to identify dependencies and align on delivering cross-team initiatives.

• You'll work closely with management to understand priorities and advocate for them on the team.

This role is located in Bellevue, WA USA.

Bachelor degree plus 8+ years of related experience OR Master degree plus 6+ years of related experience OR PhD and 3+ years of related experience