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About the Role

As a Staff Software Engineer on the ESXi OS Services team, you will lead the design and delivery of high-impact functionality across User Space OS services, container services, distributed control planes, and application infrastructure. You will help define technical direction for enterprise-class virtualization, Kubernetes platforms, and modern cloud-native workloads.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement advanced operating system techniques for managing virtual systems on x86 architectures.
• Architect and develop scalable container services, container runtimes, and Kubernetes platform capabilities tightly integrated with ESXi and vSphere.
• Develop highly available platform infrastructure to run customer workloads that span across clusters and zones, supporting their specific network and storage requirements.
• Maintain open source code for security fixes, and upkeep upstream Kubernetes features.
• Drive development of platforms supporting SaaS, CaaS, and FaaS workloads.
• Partner closely with Product Management to define requirements and translate business needs into technical solutions.
• Collaborate with UI/UX designers, system architects, test teams, and cross-functional stakeholders across the organization to deliver high-quality, end-to-end solutions.
• Design and develop novel operating system techniques and algorithms for managing virtual systems in x86 architecture, developing platforms to deploy SaaS, CaaS and FaaS.
• Implement advanced container runtime and Kubernetes features, with emphasis on scalability, performance, reliability, and support of upstream open-source technologies.
• Work with multiple engineering teams to architect, design, implement and deliver new products based on the enterprise-class vSphere virtualization platform.
• Learn the tools and processes necessary to become a successful OS Services engineer.

Requirements

• BS/MS/PhD in Computer Science/Electrical Engineering or similar fields.
• 3+ years of relevant experience for BS, 0+ for MS and 0+ for PhD.
• Strong proficiency in C/C++, Golang, and Python.
• Deep understanding of Linux/Unix operating system internals, especially user space concepts like processes, threads, memory management, and I/O.
• History of leading System software projects/teams.
• Experience architecting distributed software solutions.
• Experience in developing, debugging, and optimizing core operating system services or user space applications.
• Familiarity with cloud-native technologies, containerization (Docker/containerd), and Kubernetes architecture.
• Good verbal and written communication skills.
• Experience with one or more hypervisors
• Experience in Kubernetes configuration and low-level components of Kubernetes
• Experience with one or more cloud platform architectures

Skills

• C/C++
• Golang
• Python
• Linux/Unix operating system internals
• User space concepts
• Processes
• Threads
• Memory management
• I/O
• System software projects
• Distributed software solutions
• Operating system services
• User space applications
• Cloud-native technologies
• Containerization
• Docker
• containerd
• Kubernetes architecture
• Hypervisors
• Kubernetes configuration
• Cloud platform architectures

Experience Level

• 3+ years of relevant experience for BS
• 0+ for MS
• 0+ for PhD

Education Level

• BS/MS/PhD in Computer Science/Electrical Engineering or similar fields.

Salary/Compensations

• USD 82,500.00 To USD 132,000.00

Benefits

• Discretionary annual bonus
• Competitive new hire equity grant
• Annual equity awards
• 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
• Company follows all applicable laws for Paid Family Leave and other leaves of absence.

About the Company

• The foundation of VMWare by Broadcom's virtualization technology is the ESXi hypervisor. ESXi is an operating system and virtualization infrastructure built from scratch for the explicit purpose of running virtual machines. It is the leading data center operating system in the world, and is used by most large corporations, due to its advanced capabilities, security, performance, and quality.
• ESXi OS Services team is responsible for all User Space aspects of the ESXi OS. This includes various operating system services, distributed control plane, container runtime and application infrastructure.
• You will be a hands-on Principal Software Engineer setting direction for high-impact and/or long-range strategic and technical projects. You will lead major initiatives and work with various cross-functional teams to design and deliver new functionality, targeted for distributed control planes, container runtime and new virtualization workloads.

Equal Opportunity

• 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.