R & D Staff Engineer – Cloud Platform Infra Engineer

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Job Description:

Business Summary:

At VMware by Broadcom, we are building new possibilities for our customers by accelerating digital business transformation. The VMware Cloud Foundation Division enables organizations around the world to run their business critical and modern applications in a secure, resilient, and cost-efficient manner.

With our flagship product VMware vSphere, and our industry-leading technologies including vSAN, NSX and Aria, Broadcom customers receive the scale and agility of a public cloud with the security and performance of a private cloud. Modern infrastructures, accelerated application innovation, and predictable TCO savings and investment returns are just a few of the benefits from having a private cloud infrastructure powered by VMware Cloud Foundation.

Together, our bold group of technology professionals with diverse backgrounds – spanning engineering, products, marketing, partners, professional services, and global support services – is focusing on what can be for the largest enterprises, governments, financial services, healthcare, manufacturing and educational institutions of the world.

Team Summary:

Storage and Data Protection (SDP) group Vmware Cloud Foundation Organization offers easy-to-use SaaS solutions to provide Disaster Recovery (DR) and Ransomware Recovery(RWR) for vSphere-based Software Defined Data Centers (SDDC). These products are architected to work well with other VMware Cloud solutions, such as VMware Cloud on AWS, Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud Platform.
SDP’s Cloud Platform Infra team is responsible for packaging and build tools. This team owns everything from compilers, build tools, Linux distros, 3rd-party packages and has real influence in the distributed system design of the DR/RWR projects. This team steers the direction of CloudDR/RWR standard development environment. You will take ownership of meaningful, big-picture projects and springboard an impactful career. To be clear, this is not a DevOps position. We are looking for individuals with strong coding skills that can quickly understand and isolate problems in areas of code that they have never looked at before. Be it, diagnosing/fixing potential security vulnerabilities, interfacing with security and open source compliance teams, evaluating compiler upgrades or being that last resort in helping someone with a compilation issue.

This job will be in person on the Palo Alto, CA campus.

Responsibilities:

• You will work as an Individual Contributor in SDP Cloud Platform Infra team

• You will be evaluating and updating compilers, build tools, Linux distros, 3rd-party packages 

• You will be using security scanning tools and resolving issues that comes up

• You will be building and packaging to ship products safely, predictably and efficiently

• You will observe existing developer environment/usage and identify optimization that helps in engineering productivity

• You will engage with various teams to collect requirements and implement them

• You will do hands-on coding and code reviews

• You will provide functional guidance to junior team members

• You will help engineering development team members with root cause and corrective action of any issues/blockers related to build/packaging

Tools and Languages we regularly use:

• Golang

• Makefiles

• Dockerfiles/docker-compose

• Packer (and custom plugins)

• Python

• Gradle

• Meson

• Shell scripts

• C

Required Skills:

• Very strong Linux fundamentals (e.g. you can build custom Docker container, EC2/GCP instances, OVAs and can explain why something is not working correctly). If you have spent quality time with more advanced distros (e.g. Arch, Gentoo, etc.) then we’d like to talk to you.

• Hands-on experience working with one of the public cloud platform like AWS, GCP, Azure

• Strong fundamentals in at least 2 of these languages

  • Python

  • Golang

  • Java

  • C 

• Shell scripting

• Minimum Degree and Experience Required:
  Bachelors and 12+ years of related experience; at this level a postgraduate
  degree is typically expected or
  Masters degree and 10+ years of related experience or
  PhD and 7+ years of related experience

Nice to have experience in:

• Python packaging

• Golang build systems

• Gradle

• Custom packer plugin experience

• GRPC and protobuf emitter plugins

• Crossplatform tooling familiarity (e.g. macOS vs. Linux and aarch64 vs. Amd64)

• Coverity, Blackduck, Wazuh, Fluentd

• Hashicorp Vault

• Node.js

• Designed a complex build system (e.g. Makefile, Meson, CMake, Gradle, Bazel, etc.)

Additional Job Description:

Broadcom is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We will consider qualified applicants without regard to race, color, creed, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, 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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