Principal Kubernetes Software Engineer

Broadcom Corporation•Austin, TX

34d•Onsite

About The Position

VMware by Broadcom is the leader in virtualization and cloud infrastructure solutions. VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) is a full-stack Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) platform that provides a unified, self-service experience for deploying and managing virtual machines (VMs) and containers across on-premises and public cloud environments. It delivers consistent infrastructure and operations across a variety of clouds, enabling organizations to modernize their applications and optimize their cloud deployments. The Kubernetes Distribution team in VCF is focused on delivering up-to-date and secure Kubernetes and CNCF projects as packages for the vSphere Kubernetes Service (VKS) and vSphere Supervisor. The Kubernetes Distribution team is looking for a Principal Kubernetes Engineer with deep expertise in Open Source Software (OSS) and Cloud-Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) contribution processes and community. The role is focused on Kubernetes internals, and other related projects. In this role, you will design and perform business-aligned contributions primarily for releases, security, manageability, scale, and integrations. This position is ideal for engineers who are highly skilled in Go, familiar with Kubernetes technology and processes and passionate about talking about and building technology for our customers with a global community of open source engineers.

Requirements

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

Nice To Haves

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

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.

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.

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