Broadcom Principal Engineer - Lifecycle Management 

United States, California, Palo Alto 

672896383

Job Role and Responsibility:

The responsibilities for this role are the following:

• Define innovative new solutions for our domain – managing clusters of ESXi hypervisors at scale.

• Play a key role in technical discussions, architectural decisions and problem-solving exercises.

• Represent the team in internal and external forums to evangelize and defend the product architecture, so that other teams see the benefits and sign up to do the integration.

• Interact with engineering leadership from different teams to understand their needs and concerns, and work through issues that get raised in such interactions.

• Hands-on contributions towards the design and implementation of key elements of the product.

• Work with other functions within the Company (such as Product Management, Technical Marketing, Documentation etc.) to convert customer/market requirements into viable product solutions

• Mentor the team’s other members on design/coding and help grow their technical careers

Required Skills:

• Master’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent with 10+ years of experience, or Bachelor’s degree with 12+ years of experience.

• Currently working in a senior technical leadership role (such as Staff or Senior Engineer)

• Must have a broad technical background in client-server technologies, with good understanding of the full software stack and programming background at the systems level.

• Programming experience with C++, Python, Java or similar languages

• A good understanding of Networking and Storage fundamentals

• Deep knowledge of distributed systems, relational databases, algorithms, data structures and object-oriented concepts

• Experience with build systems such as Bazel

• Understanding of continuous integration and release processes

• Excellent oral and written communication skills, with the ability to seamlessly interact with technical as well as non-technical audiences

Preferred Skills:

• Understanding of virtualization concepts

• Good understanding of UI or UX requirements