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Broadcom Principal Software Engineer 
United States, California, Palo Alto 
703643584

06.04.2025

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

You will have rapid impact over the next software AI products within the portfolio:

  • Within the first month of employment, become competent with the product features, guidelines, and standard operations. Work closely with the more senior members of the team to get onboard. Make your first contribution to the project.

  • Within 90 days (about 3 months) of employment, you will start working on a feature of the product in a small sub-team.

  • Within 180 days (about 6 months), you will be an expert in the project and be able to support our existing internal customers, work independently on new features and be able to propose improvements to the product features.

Within the first year of employment, you will be making larger changes to the project from start to finish, including designing the change and going through the architectural review process, implementing the changes in small sub-teams and deploying as part of the product release.

The Work: What type of work will you be doing? What assignments, requirements, or skills will you be performing on a regular basis?
  • Be part of an Agile scrum team and participate in daily meetings, code or architectural reviews

  • Design and develop new functionalities for the product, using technology stacks based on Golang, Kubernetes, Python; effectively use SQL/ORM, etc.

  • Work with and utilise your solid knowledge of containerisation, network protocols and Linux/Unix system internals, CI/CD tools and technology like Github Actions and Artifactory/Harbor; IAC/CM technology like Terraform, Helm, Contour; infrastructure technologies such as VMware vSphere or other virtualization

  • Engage with an enterprise SDLC process and maintain equanimity in order to ship with the VCF platform

Job Requirements
  • Bachelors Degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Statistics, Mathematics and 12+ years of experience or Masters and 10+ years in an industry or a discipline directly related to your area of expertise.

  • Demonstrated ability to troubleshoot and ship from initial concept to shipping product.

  • Experience developing infrastructure platform capabilities for platforms such as VMware vSphere (now VCF), Kubernetes, and ML Ops

  • Be very experienced with stacks based on Golang, Kubernetes, Python, C/C++; SQL/ORM and API design

  • Experience writing and maintaining Kubernetes operators.

  • Solid knowledge of containerisation, network protocols and Linux/Unix system internals, CI/CD tools and technology like Github Actions and Artifactory/Harbor; IAC/CM technology like Terraform, Carvel, Contour; infrastructure technologies such as VMware vSphere or other virtualization; Kubernetes Operators or VCF’s Supervisor / IaaS layer.

  • Experience designing, developing and delivering software for on premises customers.

  • Be able to design, present, and participate in product architecture reviews including an understanding of security, scaling, and testing requirements

  • Experience in effective code reviews and cross-functional team work with other engineering dependencies, OSS projects, product and release management

  • Understanding of enterprise SDLC processes and willingness to engage with these throughout the lifecycle of your work

  • Backup claims in your resume and cover letter with GitHub contributions as appropriate

  • Successfully participate in an in-person on-site technical interview

This role is onsite in Palo Alto, California; Austin, Texas; or Sofia, Bulgaria. You’ll be expected to work from the office full-time, Monday through Friday.

Compensation and Benefits

The annual base salary range for this position is127,000 - $225,000.

This position is also eligible for a discretionary annual bonus in accordance with relevant plan documents, and equity in accordance with equity plan documents and equity award agreements.