Staff Engineer - Lifecycle Management
Job Description
- Understanding of virtualization concepts.
- Good understanding of UI or UX requirements.
- Define innovative new solutions for managing clusters of ESXi hypervisors at scale.
- Play a key role in technical discussions, architectural decisions, and problem-solving exercises.
- Interact with engineering leadership from different teams to understand their needs and concerns.
- Hands-on contributions towards the design and implementation of key elements of the product.
- Work with other functions within the Company (such as Product Management, Technical Marketing, Documentation etc.) to convert customer/market requirements into viable product solutions.
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent with 8+ years of experience, or Master’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent with 6+ years of experience.
- Broad technical background in client-server technologies, with good understanding of the full software stack and programming background at the systems level.
- Programming experience with C++, Python, Java or similar languages.
- A good understanding of Networking and Storage fundamentals.
- Deep knowledge of distributed systems, relational databases, algorithms, data structures and object-oriented concepts.
- Experience with build systems such as Bazel.
- Understanding of continuous integration and release processes.
- Excellent oral and written communication skills, with the ability to seamlessly interact with technical as well as non-technical audiences.
- Must have legal authorization to work in the US.
- Discretionary annual bonus.
- Equity in accordance with equity plan documents and equity award agreements.
- 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.
- Vacation time.
- Paid Family Leave and other leaves of absence (as per applicable laws).
Business Summary:
The VMware division of Broadcom is designing a visionary new Clustered Operations workflow for managing the ESXi hypervisor. This involves a complete re-design and rewrite of how ESXi clusters are managed at scale. There is an urgent need for a senior level engineer to contribute to the team's effort during this significant transition in designing and implementing the new approach.
Job Role and Responsibility:
This role is a senior engineering role for the team that is radically redesigning the way the ESXi hypervisor is managed in terms of clustered operations. From a host centric way of doing things, we are moving to a cluster-focused approach that lends itself to scale out well for VCF and vSphere deployments. This ideal candidate will have the technical depth and breadth to understand the various complex systems that our designs interact with, and will utilize this background to propose, lead and execute on innovative solutions for these complex problems.
The responsibilities for this role are the following:
- Define innovative new solutions for our domain – managing clusters of ESXi hypervisors at scale.
- Play a key role in technical discussions, architectural decisions and problem-solving exercises.
- Interact with engineering leadership from different teams to understand their needs and concerns, and work through issues that get raised in such interactions.
- Hands-on contributions towards the design and implementation of key elements of the product.
- Work with other functions within the Company (such as Product Management, Technical Marketing, Documentation etc.) to convert customer/market requirements into viable product solutions
Required Skills:
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent with 8+ years of experience, or Master’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent with 6+ years of experience.
- Must have a broad technical background in client-server technologies, with good understanding of the full software stack and programming background at the systems level.
- Programming experience with C++, Python, Java or similar languages
- A good understanding of Networking and Storage fundamentals
- Deep knowledge of distributed systems, relational databases, algorithms, data structures and object-oriented concepts
- Experience with build systems such as Bazel
- Understanding of continuous integration and release processes
- Excellent oral and written communication skills, with the ability to seamlessly interact with technical as well as non-technical audiences
Preferred Skills:
- Understanding of virtualization concepts
- Good understanding of UI or UX requirements
Must have legal authorization to work in the US
Compensation And Benefits
Annual base salary: $144,000 - $172,000
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.
