Broadcom ยท 8 hours ago
Principal Kubernetes Software Engineer
California, United States
Full-time
Onsite
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
$127K/yr - $226K/yr
10+ years expBroadcom, through VMware, is a leader in virtualization and cloud infrastructure solutions. The Principal Kubernetes Software Engineer will focus on delivering secure Kubernetes and CNCF projects, collaborating with a global community of engineers, and leading technical contributions to enhance the Kubernetes Distribution team.
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Responsibilities
Leverage common patterns to develop fixes and features for Kubernetes and CNCF projects
Design customer-oriented and community-aligned features by building consensus through Key Enhancement Proposals (KEPs) or related open source contribution process
Ensure explicit Kubernetes version and feature compatibility with continual improvements to automation, pipelines and testing
Timely delivery of releases which meet SLAs, architecture, security, and compliance requirements
Leverage your own credibility through community interactions and positive contributions
Collaborate internally with stakeholders from product, security, infrastructure, and operations teams
Most of your time will be developing using Kubernetes controllers and patterns, mostly written in Go
You will collaborate with a global community of engineers in various CNCF open source projects
You will be responsible for delivering your code changes to open source projects and satisfying any requirements for contribution
You'll work closely with management to understand priorities and advocate for them on the team
You will collaborate internally with set of stakeholders, leads, and team members to make projects or contributions available as features
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 will write automated tests to validate and secure critical customer functionalities
You will mentor junior engineers, providing technical leadership on complex problems, and contributing to plans for new product opportunities
You will identify key issues, anticipate problems, generate ideas to reduce costs and improve quality/efficiency, and proactively identify improvements to business processes and policies
You will take on-call responsibilities to triage, troubleshoot, and mitigate production issues
Qualification
Required
Kubernetes expertise and material engineering contribution to at least 1 CNCF project and various OSS projects
Experience with one or more cloud platform architectures
History of leading system software projects/teams
Good knowledge of distributed systems, databases, algorithms, data structures
Good verbal and written communication skills
Bachelor's degree plus 12+ years of related experience or Master's degree plus 10+ years of related experience
Preferred
vSphere experience
Extensive knowledge and experience using and delivering complex container, kernel, packaging, and operating system functionality
Operational knowledge of Kubernetes in production environments
Material contribution to 2+ CNCF projects or Kubernetes SIG projects, ie. Kubernetes, Cluster API, ContainerD/RunC, Cluster Autoscaler, Metrics Server, ArgoCD, Certmanager, Flux, Gateway API, Etcd, Harbor, Helm, Istio, Jaeger, KEDA, Kubeadm, Kubeflow, Kuve-vip, Kyverno, OPA/Gatekeeper, Opentelemetry
Benefits
Medical, dental and vision plans
401(K) participation including company matching
Employee Stock Purchase Program (ESPP)
Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
Company paid holidays
Paid sick leave and vacation time
The company follows all applicable laws for Paid Family Leave and other leaves of absence.
Company
Broadcom
Broadcom is a designer, developer, and global supplier of a broad range of analog and digital semiconductor connectivity solutions.
10001+ employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Public CompanyTotal Funding
unknown2017-10-31Post Ipo Equity
2015-05-28Acquired
1998-04-17IPO
Leadership Team
Greg Singh
CTO for APJ, Enterprise Security Group
Kirsten Spears
CFO and CAO, Broadcom
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