Broadcom

Forward Deployed Engineer - Kubernetes

Broadcom
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Remote, United StatesStaff+
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Base Salary

$111k - $177k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Collaborate directly with core software architects, product managers, and enterprise developers to eliminate deployment friction.
  • Own customer engagements from pre-migration discovery through production rollout and operational stabilization.
  • Write production code, build manifests, prototype integrations, troubleshoot live networking, storage, and GPU failures, and optimize VKS performance.
  • Architect, deploy, and maintain VKS clusters across VMware Cloud Foundation and hybrid cloud infrastructure for general-purpose and accelerated workloads.
  • Lead migration of bare-metal, legacy data, stateful, messaging, caching, analytics, and AI platforms to Kubernetes or cloud-native targets.
  • Deploy, tune, and scale AI inferencing, RAG, vector search, and model-serving workloads using virtualized GPU resources.
  • Translate field-tested solutions and customer pain points into prioritized product requirements and platform features.
  • Guide clients operating VKS alongside OpenShift, EKS, GKE, AKS, and Rancher distributions.

Requirements

  • 12+ years of related experience is required.
  • Bachelor's degree is preferred; relevant years of experience in lieu of a degree may be considered.
  • Experience working within or closely alongside product engineering or core software/R&D organizations rather than pure IT or professional services.
  • Proven ability to stay engaged with customer technical leadership and developers across complex, long-term engineering projects.
  • Hands-on experience with GPU-accelerated Kubernetes nodes, model-serving runtimes, vector databases, and distributed AI orchestration.
  • Experience containerizing and operating distributed caches, in-memory grids, messaging systems, analytics platforms, and other high-throughput or low-latency stateful workloads.
  • Deep technical knowledge of cloud-native data services, AI engines, workflow orchestration, query engines, NoSQL systems, vector engines, and competing Kubernetes distributions.
  • Advanced skills in Terraform, Helm, Kubernetes Operators, Cluster API, ArgoCD, and Flux.

Benefits

  • Medical, dental, and vision plans.
  • 401(k) participation with company matching.
  • Employee Stock Purchase Program and Employee Assistance Program.
  • Company-paid holidays, paid sick leave, vacation time, and applicable paid family and other leaves.
  • Eligibility for a discretionary annual bonus and new-hire and annual equity awards, subject to applicable plans and agreements.

Tech Stack

Apache AirflowApache CassandraApache FlinkApache HadoopApache KafkaApache SparkElasticsearchHelmKubernetesOpenShiftPrestoRabbitMQRedisTerraformYarn

Categories

Forward Deployed
Broadcom

About Broadcom

10,000+ employees

Broadcom builds semiconductors and infrastructure software used in networking, wireless, broadband, storage, data centers, and enterprise IT. It sells chipsets to OEMs and cloud providers and licenses/subscribes infrastructure software for mainframe, cybersecurity, and private cloud environments. Headquartered in Palo Alto, it is a public company (NASDAQ: AVGO) and expanded its software portfolio by acquiring VMware in 2023.

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