Senior Kubernetes Engineer & OSS/CNCF Contributor

Broadcom Inc.; California (MO); On-site; USD 210,000 - 270,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical plan

Dental plan

Vision plan

401(K) with matching

Employee Stock Purchase Program

Employee Assistance Program

Paid holidays

Paid sick leave and vacation

Job summary

Broadcom Inc. in Palo Alto, CA is seeking a Principal Kubernetes Software Engineer to advance Kubernetes internals within the VMware Kubernetes Distribution team. You will contribute to releases, security, and integrations, primarily in Go, engaging with a global OSS community.

This role emphasizes deep OSS contributions and collaboration with product, security, and operations to deliver scalable cloud-native software for VMware's stack.

Qualifications

• Kubernetes expertise and material engineering contribution to at least 1 CNCF project and 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

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 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.
• Collaborate internally with stakeholders from product, security, infrastructure, and operations teams.
• Mentor junior engineers, providing technical leadership on complex problems, and contributing to plans for new product opportunities.
• Write automated tests to validate and secure critical customer functionalities.
• Lead developer efficiency efforts and take ownership of improving the culture of innovation.

Skills

Kubernetes

OSS contributions

Go programming

Cloud-native computing

Distributed systems

Communication skills

Education

Bachelor's degree + 12+ years experience

Master's degree + 10+ years experience

Job description

Broadcom Inc. in Palo Alto, CA is seeking a Principal Kubernetes Software Engineer to advance Kubernetes internals within the VMware Kubernetes Distribution team. You will contribute to releases, security, and integrations, primarily in Go, engaging with a global OSS community.

This role emphasizes deep OSS contributions and collaboration with product, security, and operations to deliver scalable cloud-native software for VMware's stack.