R&D Distinguished Software Engineer

Broadcom Inc.; Colorado; On-site; USD 200,000 - 320,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Discretionary annual bonus

Equity grants and annual equity awards

401(K) with company match

Employee Stock Purchase Program (ESPP)

Employee Assistance Program (EAP)

Paid holidays

Paid sick leave and vacation

Job summary

Broadcom Inc. in Palo Alto, CA, seeks a Distinguished Engineer to architect and deliver high‑performance, cloud‑scale load balancing and security solutions for AI workloads.

You will own architectural leadership across distributed systems and mentor engineers while collaborating with global teams to optimize scale and data flow. You will drive end-to-end product lifecycles, design durable microservices, and work with OpenSearch, PostgreSQL, Redis, and Neo4j to provide timely insights and robust

Qualifications

• Education at BS/MS/PhD in Engineering/CS or related field.

Responsibilities

• Architect and build high-performance, cloud-scale load balancing and security solutions.
• Lead design and implementation for AI workloads including AI agents and LLMs.
• Scale data pipelines to handle millions of records with elastic growth.
• Mentor engineers and drive engineering best practices across teams.

Skills

GoLang

Python

C++

Distributed systems

Microservices

gRPC/Protobuf/REST

Data pipelines

TCP/IP networking

Cloud-Native Architecture

OpenSearch/Elasticsearch

Education

BS/MS/PhD in Engineering/CS

Tools

OpenSearch

PostgreSQL

Redis

Neo4j

Elasticsearch

Job description

Join the Avi Engineering team as a Distinguished Engineer to deliver Load balancing and Security solutions for the AI Era. The team has a storied history of innovation and an extensive patent portfolio. We foster a culture of intellectual curiosity turning creative ideas into tangible solutions. You’ll fit right in if you're someone who adopts a first-principles approach to problem-solving, love deep-diving into distributed systems to optimize scale and performance, and enjoy the challenge of making data flow seamlessly at a massive scale. This on-site position is based in Palo Alto, California. You will join a global, cross-border team of talented engineers operating across India, Germany, and the USA.

Key Responsibilities

• As a Distinguished Engineer, you will be architecting and building high-performance, cloud-scale load balancing and security solutions.
• Architectural Leadership: Lead the design and implementation of Load balancing and Security solutions for AI workloads, including but not limited to AI agents, LLMs, and Gateways.
• Scale & Performance: Build and optimize data pipelines capable of handling millions of records, ensuring the platform scales elastically in AI environments.
• Tech Stack Orchestration: Leverage a sophisticated stack to build durable, stateful workflows to manage complex backend processes.
• Data Strategy: Design schemas and optimize queries across a polyglot persistence layer (OpenSearch, PostgreSQL, Redis, and Neo4j) to provide time sensitive insights to customers.
• Mentorship: Act as a key technical leader by conducting deep-dive code reviews, driving engineering best practices, and mentoring junior engineers.

Required Skills & Experience

Professional Experience Education: BS/MS/PhD in Engineering Computer Science or a related technical field.

1. Experience : Bachelors with 20+ years; Masters with 18+ years; PhD with 15+ years of related experience
2. Proven experience building complex highly distributed systems
3. Proven experience leading the end-to-end lifecycle of a product, from initial design to production deployment and maintenance.
4. Programming Proficiency Expert Level (GoLang & Python): Deep mastery of Go (concurrency, profiling, and performance tuning) and Python (data manipulation and backend services).
5. Moderate Level (C++): Ability to maintain and optimize performance-critical components or interface with lower-level system libraries.
6. Cloud-Native Architecture & API Design Microservices at Scale: Proven experience designing and delivering production-grade microservices for high-throughput, cloud-scale environments.
7. Communication Protocols: Proficiency in gRPC, Google Protocol Buffers (Protobuf), and RESTful API design, with a deep understanding of the HTTP/S stack.
8. Data Persistence & Search: Hands-on experience with one or more of the following: OpenSearch/Elasticsearch, PostgreSQL, Redis, or Neo4j (or their equivalents).

Desired Skills & Qualifications

• Networking Domain Expertise: Strong understanding of L4–L7 networking, TCP/IP, HTTP/S protocols, and load-balancing principles.
• Advanced Data Engineering: Background in building data pipelines specifically for security and intelligence platforms (e.g., threat detection, anomaly detection, or predictive analytics).
• Analytics Background: Familiarity with time-series data, stream processing, and large-scale data visualization backend logic.

Compensation and Benefits

The annual base salary range for this position is USD 200,000.00 To USD 320,000.00

As a valued member of our team, you’ll be eligible for a discretionary annual bonus and the opportunity to receive not only a competitive new hire equity grant, but also annual equity awards, connecting your success directly to the company's growth.

Broadcom offers a competitive and comprehensive benefits package: 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.

Broadcom is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We will consider qualified applicants without regard to race, color, creed, religion, sex, sexual orientation, national origin, citizenship, disability status, medical condition, pregnancy, protected veteran status or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local law. We will also consider qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records consistent with local law.

We are a global technology leader that designs, develops and supplies a broad range of semiconductor and infrastructure software solutions.