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Job Description:
Job Description
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 VKS cluster management team in VCF is focused on managing Kubernetes clusters at scale.
The VKS cluster management team seeks an experienced Kubernetes Developer with deep knowledge of Go (Golang), controller-runtime, and Custom Resource Definitions (CRDs) to help us build and maintain scalable, cloud-native infrastructure solutions. You’ll play a critical role in designing and developing Kubernetes operators and controllers that extend Kubernetes functionality to meet our business needs.
What are the primary needs, technical challenges, and problems you will be responsible for?
As a Senior Engineer of the VKS Cluster Management team, we expect you to:
Design and implement Kubernetes microservices, controllers, and operators using Go and controller-runtime.
Define, maintain, and evolve Kubernetes Custom Resource Definitions (CRDs).
Integrate third-party and in-house services into the Kubernetes ecosystem.
Develop and maintain scalable microservices and tools for automating infrastructure and deployments.
Write high-quality, testable, and well-documented code.
Participate in code reviews, architecture discussions, and sprint planning sessions.
Monitor, debug, and optimize the performance of Kubernetes components and related tooling.
Partner with the Leadership team and product team to establish a vision and a roadmap for the Policy Management for VCF cluster management.
Collaborate with stakeholders from partner engineering, product, security, infrastructure, and operations teams.
Success in the Role: What are the performance goals over the first 6-12 months you will work toward completing?
Within your first six months
You understand the vision, architecture, and data model of the VKS cluster management backend control plane.
You will have a good understanding of Kubernetes policy management (RBAC, Network, Pod security policy, Admin Network Policy, and OPA)
You are expected to produce software designs that define and extend kubernetes policy management capabilities. These interfaces must meet Broadcom and industry standards and provide a consistent programming model across multiple languages.
You will be expected to design, implement, test, and deploy microservices developed in Go.
After six months+
Take ownership of the VKS cluster management and lead a team of exceptional software engineers to implement cloud-scale solutions.
Work with product and leadership to evaluate, prioritize, and provide solutions for customers and partner service teams.
Representing the team and product in cross-team design discussions, identifying dependencies and areas of impact.
Actively participate and contribute to the gatekeeper and OPA open source community.
Leads developer efficiency efforts and takes personal ownership of improving the culture of innovation of the team.
Mentoring fellow engineers in their role, and coaching them into influential voices in the department.
What type of work will you be doing? What assignments, requirements, or skills will you be performing regularly?
As part of the VCF cluster management Team:
Most of your time will be developing microservices and Kubernetes controllers using cloud-native technologies like Kubernetes, gRPC, REST APIs, databases, message queues, distributed tracing, monitoring, and more. All of our services are written in Go.
You will write automated tests in Go to validate and secure critical customer functionalities.
You will be responsible for delivering your code changes to production and monitoring/maintaining our CI/CD pipelines.
You will take on-call responsibilities to triage, troubleshoot, and mitigate production issues.
Work directly with Technical Project Managers and Product Managers to better understand requirements and define the scope of work.
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 can expect to collaborate with partner teams to identify dependencies and align on delivering cross-team initiatives.
You'll work closely with management to understand priorities and advocate for them on the team.
Where is this role located?
This role is located in Bellevue, WA USA.
Requirements
Bachelor degree plus 5+ years of related experience OR Master degree plus 3+ years of related experience OR PhD and 0+ years of related experience
Additional Job Description:
Compensation and Benefits
The annual base salary range for this position is$91,000 - $146,000
This 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) 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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