Broadcom R&D Software Engineer - Source Code Management SCM Tools 

United States, California, Palo Alto 

751529177

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

• You will directly improve the way in which VCF developers engage day to day with SCM (Perforce, GitHub), and Build infrastructure

• You will analyze business problems, and requirements and spearhead engineering efforts to meet objectives

• You will proactively identify development productivity and operational risks, and implement scripts, tools and services to address them.

• You will engage with other Sr. Engineering leaders to design, review, and code solutions.

• You will ensure that the IT DevOps organization understands and is aligned to VCF business requirements and delivers projects to specification.

The Work: What type of work will you be doing? What assignments, requirements, or skills will you be performing on a regular basis?

• Educate your colleagues as to the latest SCM (Perforce, GitHub) features, tools, technologies, and practices to enhance system functionality and efficiency.

• Define/Refine, Implement, and Operate productivity and management solutions for VCF developers and release managers in the areas of branching, merging, code-review (PR), and SCM interoperability automation.

• Build and operate tools and services to support: SCM migration activities from Perforce to GitHub (including monorepos), Product builds using custom SCM automation to implement spare-checkout, git-archive, and sha-caching, as well as other automation which increases VCF developer productivity when interacting with source control.

• Understand VCF developer workflow needs across the enterprise in order to be an effective advocate.

• Understand SCM governance best-practices in order to confidently communicate-with and define appropriate solutions on behalf of stakeholders.

• Create and improve observability of our tools and services to meet SLO’s.

• Participate in an on-call rotation with the larger engineering services organization in order to ensure SLO’s are met, and build a broad understanding of our systems, tools, and processes.

• Create high-quality documentation helping to maintain procedures, guidelines, and training materials.

Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field and 12+ years of related experience or Masters degree in Computer Science or related field and 10+ years of related experience.

Your manager will be an experienced Software Engineer. They will support your growth through training, mentorship, and stretch opportunities. You should expect regular 1:1 meetings with your manager that are focused on project support and careerplanning.