Senior Kubernetes Software Engineer

Senior Kubernetes Software Engineer – Palo Alto, CA

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. The Kubernetes Distribution team in VCF focuses on delivering up-to-date and secure Kubernetes and CNCF projects as packages for the vSphere Kubernetes Service (VKS) and vSphere Supervisor.

Key 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 processes.

Ensure explicit Kubernetes version and feature compatibility with continual improvements to automation, pipelines, and testing.

Timely delivery of releases that meet SLAs, architecture, security, and compliance requirements.

Leverage own credibility through community interactions and positive contributions.

Collaborate internally with stakeholders from product, security, infrastructure, and operations teams.

Success Over the First 6–12 Months

Within Your First Six Months

Seen as an internal expert, advising and influencing across VCF.

Understand the vision, architecture, and data model of the VKS and Kubernetes Distribution.

Familiarity with common Kubernetes interfaces for runtime, networking, storage, and resource management.

Production experience with deploying additional packages.

Ensure different components and subsystems work well together.

In-depth understanding of Kubernetes extensibility and reconciliation logic.

Demonstrateably design, implement, test, and deploy services developed in Go.

Champion technologies that boost project speed and automation.

Understand how to meet Broadcom and industry standards.

After Six Months

Align future customer needs with community interests in technical areas.

Recognized technical and community leader across various projects.

Designed and got approval for a Kubernetes KEP.

Consistently impact upstream projects through code, architecture, community management, and public representation.

Available a new CNCF software component or had material impact for other features for VCF.

Define and implement process changes, helping to clear technical debt and make architectural improvements.

Lead developer efficiency efforts and take ownership of improving the culture of innovation of the team.

Mentor fellow engineers and coach them into influential voices in the department.

Day-to-Day Work

Develop using Kubernetes controllers and patterns, mostly written in Go.

Collaborate with a global community of engineers in various CNCF open-source projects.

Deliver code changes to open-source projects and satisfy contribution requirements.

Work closely with management to understand priorities and advocate for them on the team.

Collaborate internally with stakeholders to make projects or contributions available as features.

Responsible for high-level epics, define requirements, break down work into individual items, and lead estimation and scoping.

Write automated tests to validate and secure critical customer functionalities.

Mentor junior engineers, providing technical leadership on complex problems, and contribute to new product opportunities.

Identify key issues, anticipate problems, generate ideas to reduce costs and improve quality / efficiency, proactively improve business processes and policies.

Triage, troubleshoot, and mitigate production issues.

Qualifications

Kubernetes expertise and material engineering contribution to at least one CNCF project and various OSS projects.

Experience with one or more cloud platform architectures.

Nice to Have

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 two or more CNCF projects or Kubernetes SIG projects.

Technologies

– 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.

Location

– Palo Alto, CA, USA.

Compensation and Benefits

The annual base salary range for this position is $141,300 – $226,000. The position is also eligible for a discretionary annual bonus in accordance with relevant plan documents, and equity in accordance with equity plan documents and equity award agreements.

Broadcom offers a competitive and comprehensive benefits package : Medical, dental and vision plans; 401(K); 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.

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