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Job Description:

The Problem We’re Solving

Enterprises want to run Kubernetes at scale — without becoming Kubernetes experts.

Today, many Broadcom customers run mission-critical workloads on vSphere, but adopting Kubernetes often means:

• Operating a second control plane

• Stitching together storage, networking, identity, and lifecycle tooling

• Carrying ongoing operational and upgrade risk

This complexity slows adoption and creates reliability issues at scale.

Our mission: make Kubernetes boring and effectively disappear for enterprise operators — by embedding it directly into the vSphere control plane and making it behave like a first-class infrastructure primitive.

The Role: Principal Engineer, vSphere Kubernetes Service (VKS)

You’ll join the VKS team, responsible for the Kubernetes control plane that is built into VMware Cloud Foundation. 

Your job is to design and build a distributed management system that:

• Runs Kubernetes control planes reliably across thousands of enterprise environments

• Manages the full lifecycle of Kubernetes workload clusters

• Integrates deeply with storage, networking, identity, and VM infrastructure

• Preserves enterprise guarantees around availability, upgrades, and operability

This is platform engineering at scale, with real production impact to 1000s of enterprise customers.

What You’ll Actually Work On

You will tackle problems like:

• How do we manage Kubernetes clusters as infrastructure, not pets?
  Designing control-plane workflows that create, upgrade, and heal clusters safely.

• How do we reconcile Kubernetes abstractions with vSphere primitives?
  Bridging containers and VMs without leaking complexity to operators.

• How do we build a control plane that survives real enterprise failure modes?
  Partial upgrades, split-brain scenarios, networking failures, and version skew.

• How do we test distributed systems rigorously?
  Building automated tests that validate correctness, upgrades, and resilience.

Your Responsibilities

• Design, architect, and implement distributed systems in Go, C++, or Java

• Serve as a technical lead and mentor to the team, providing day-to-day technical direction and coaching to ensure successful project delivery.

• Align team goals with organizational strategy, delegating tasks, and fostering a culture of collaboration.

• Own the complete Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC) for assigned technical areas, including design, implementation, and quality assurance.

• Work with other Tech Leads and architects to translate ambiguous, large-scale problems into clear architecture, technical designs, and execution plans.

• Drive and lead team processes to improve operational efficiency.

• Partner with product management and customer-facing teams to translate product feedback and issues into technical requirements and execution plans.

• Foster a culture of technical excellence, accountability, and continuous improvement.

What Makes You a Strong Fit

• Hands-on experience building and operating Kubernetes-based systems, including a deep understanding of the control plane architecture (API server, etcd, scheduler, controller-manager, etc.) and how they maintain the desired state.

• Proven track record in architecting systems that deliver enterprise-grade guarantees around performance, scalability, reliability, and security in production environments.

• Experience extending the Kubernetes API by designing declarative APIs and implementing reconciliation loops.

• Knowledge of Linux internals (cgroups, namespaces, etc.) and container runtimes like containerd.

• Knowledge of Container Network Interfaces (CNI) and managing traffic through Ingress controllers and Service Meshes (Istio, Linkerd etc.).

• Knowledge of Container Storage Interface (CSI) and managing Persistent Volumes (PVs) and PVCs.

• Strong systems design fundamentals (consistency, availability, failure handling)

• Comfort debugging production issues across multiple layers

• Ability to work independently on complex problems and collaborate across teams

• Experience working in an Agile environment using Git-based workflows
  Bachelor's degree plus 12+ years of related experience or Master's degree and 10+ years of related experience

Why This Role Is Interesting

• You’re leading the development of core infrastructure, not app-level glue.

• The problems are deeply technical and require strategic leadership to solve.

• Your work and your team's success directly affect enterprise production environments.

• You’ll help define how Kubernetes is delivered to some of the world’s largest companies.

If you enjoy making complex systems feel simple, building platforms that other engineers don’t have to think about, and empowering your team to achieve ambitious goals, this leadership role is for you.

Additional Job Description:

Compensation and Benefits

The annual base salary range for this position is $141,300 - $226,000. 

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. All subject to relevant plan documents and award agreements.

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.

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