Staff Software Engineer

Broadcom•Meadview, AZ

18d•$143,800 - $230,000

About The Position

VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) is an infrastructure platform designed to run modern workloads, from mission-critical applications to containerized applications, within a private cloud environment. VCF integrates compute, storage, networking, security, and cloud management services to offer a consistent and simplified customer experience. The operations and management engineering team within the VCF Business Unit (BU) is a dynamic and fast-paced group focused on simplifying operations and management across enterprise private cloud environments. Our team has ambitious goals to enhance management capabilities to support the latest application architectures and deployment systems, such as Kubernetes, and to enable simplified, unified management and operations. This will allow customers to concentrate on business decisions that optimize their operational costs. Within our team, software engineers are dedicated to delivering innovative management functions that boost proactive monitoring, insights, diagnostics, and observability. This enables customers to perform self-diagnostics for their operational continuity. You will leverage new technologies, solve complex problems, and collaborate with various VCF teams to design and deliver management features.

Requirements

BS degree in Computer Science or related field and 12+ years of experience or MS degree in Computer Science or related field and 10+ years of related experience.
Hands-on experience in an AI-Driven Development Life Cycle (ADLC). Proficient in leveraging AI coding agents (e.g., Claude, Cursor) and applying spec-driven development methodologies to accelerate engineering workflows.
Proven track record of designing and deploying enterprise-grade agentic applications. Experience working with both foundational LLM and SLM models to build autonomous, multi-agent architectures.
Expertise in Context Engineering and building RAG and MCP architectures to optimize retrieval accuracy, context management, and model grounding.
Experience in harness engineering including designing model routing, agent execution loop, tool integration, safety guardrails, authZ, and execution environments and memory management to ensure reliability, observability, and deterministic performance in non-deterministic systems.
Passion for keeping pace with rapid AI advancements, continuously evaluating and integrating state-of-the-art models, tools, and design patterns into production systems.
Strong proficiency in backend languages and frameworks, including Java, Spring, Hibernate.
Proven Experience in building end to end features and products with high quality, availability, performance and scale.
Solid understanding of message queueing, event streaming and data caching.
Experience working with Database technologies (RDBMS and NoSQL), preferably OpenSearch and PostgreSQL, ClickHouse.
Excellent verbal, written, and interpersonal communication skills.
Familiarity with modern JavaScript-based web frameworks like Angular or React.
Must have legal authorization to work in the US

Nice To Haves

Knowledge of VMware technology is a plus

Responsibilities

Deliver highly scalable and innovative features and capabilities for private cloud management and operations.
Participate in all phases of the software development cycle as part of an agile team.
Collaborate with the team to deliver high-quality code with tests.
Provide design specifications and documents for your work.
Research & evaluate new technologies for building and delivering new features.
Participate in architectural design and code reviews.
Collaborate with cross-functional distributed teams for product development.
Guide and mentor other engineers on technology, design, and coding practices.
Work in an Agile development environment while continuously evaluating and improving engineering processes.
Work in a fast-paced startup-like environment, able to rapidly prototype ideas and convert the prototypes into an enterprise-grade product capability.