2 days ago
Base Salary
$132k - $212k/yr
Responsibilities
- Serve as the primary technical authority connecting core engineering, product management, executive leadership, and enterprise customer architects.
- Architect and validate production-grade VKS and VCF topologies for mission-critical and regulated deployments.
- Design and deploy real-time LLM inferencing, RAG pipelines, and distributed AI runtime systems across GPU clusters.
- Lead large-scale migrations from legacy bare metal, monolithic, stateful, and AI hardware environments to Kubernetes-based platforms.
- Develop production operators, CRDs, prototype integrations, and other systems code, and upstream contributions into core engineering codebases.
- Translate customer pain points and field architecture patterns into product requirements and roadmap priorities.
- Define deployment standards, GitOps frameworks, and CAPI/Operator patterns while mentoring Senior and Staff FDEs.
Requirements
- 17+ years of related experience, including 10+ years of software engineering experience and 5+ years leading high-consequence infrastructure, distributed systems, AI platforms, or Kubernetes architectures at scale.
- Authority-level expertise in Kubernetes internals, CRDs, Operators, Cluster API, and GitOps architectures including ArgoCD and Flux.
- Experience architecting AI inferencing pipelines, virtualized GPU environments, model-serving frameworks, and distributed inference topologies.
- Proven experience running high-throughput, low-latency stateful workloads and distributed systems on Kubernetes.
- Experience with Ray, vLLM, SGLang, LeaderWorkerSets, vLLM-Orchestrator, Milvus, Qdrant, Pinecone, Apache Cassandra, ScyllaDB, Oracle Coherence, Hazelcast, Redis, Apache Ignite, Apache Kafka, RabbitMQ, Pulsar, Apache Spark, Apache Flink, Dask, and Trino/Presto.
- Hands-on systems programming experience in Go, Python, or Java for infrastructure, Kubernetes controllers, AI wrappers, or automation frameworks.
- Experience with OpenShift, EKS, GKE, AKS, Rancher RKE/RKS, CSI/CNI, RDMA, InfiniBand, and RoCEv2.
- A bachelor's degree is preferred; relevant years of experience may be considered in lieu of a degree.
- Demonstrated credibility with C-suite stakeholders and the ability to remain hands-on with production code and customer engineering teams.
Benefits
- Annual discretionary bonus and equity grant opportunities, including annual equity awards, are available in addition to base salary.
- Medical, dental, and vision plans are provided.
- 401(k) participation with company matching and an Employee Stock Purchase Program are available.
- Benefits include an Employee Assistance Program, company-paid holidays, paid sick leave, vacation time, and applicable paid family and other leaves of absence.
- The posting indicates the role is associated with the USA and asks candidates outside the USA to provide a home address for correspondence.
Tech Stack
Apache CassandraApache FlinkApache KafkaApache SparkGoJavaKubernetesOpenShiftPrestoPythonRabbitMQRancherRedis
Categories
Forward Deployed
About Broadcom
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.