Senior Kubernetes Engineer
$127k/y-$225k/y
Broadcoma year ago
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Summary
Broadcom is seeking a VKS Cluster Management R&D Engineer 5 to join their team in Bellevue, WA. The role involves designing and implementing backup and disaster recovery solutions for Kubernetes workloads, ensuring data resilience and business continuity at scale.
About the Role
As a Senior Engineer of the VKS cluster management team, you will design and implement scalable backup and restore strategies for Kubernetes using Velero and other ecosystem tools. You will extend and customize Velero through plugins, CRDs, or controllers written in Go using controller-runtime. You will lead the development of Kubernetes-native data protection solutions, including snapshot orchestration, workload migration, and disaster recovery. You will define and maintain Custom Resource Definitions (CRDs) and Kubernetes controllers related to backup workflows, develop observability and alerting around backup health, coverage, and performance, and partner with SRE, DevOps, and application teams to ensure backup strategies meet SLAs and compliance requirements. You will also contribute to the architecture and security of backup pipelines across multi-cluster or multi-cloud environments, conduct root cause analysis and postmortems for backup failures or recovery incidents, and collaborate with stakeholders from partner engineering, product, security, infrastructure, and operations teams.
About You
Required:
- Deep expertise in Kubernetes internals, Velero, and cloud-native data protection strategies.
- Highly skilled in Go, familiar with controller-runtime and CRDs.
- Production experience with Velero, including plugins, Restic integrations, and volume snapshots.
- Familiarity with CSI snapshots, PVC management, and volume restore processes across cloud providers.
Preferred:
- Experience in designing, implementing, testing, and deploying microservices developed in Go.
- Experience in leading a team of software engineers to implement cloud-scale solutions.
- Active participation and contribution to the gatekeeper and OPA open source community.
- Mentoring fellow engineers and coaching them into influential voices in the department.
Benefits
- Annual base salary range of $127k–$225k.
- Eligibility for a discretionary annual bonus and equity awards.
- Comprehensive benefits package including medical, dental, and vision plans.
- 401(K) participation with company matching.
- Employee Stock Purchase Program (ESPP).
- Employee Assistance Program (EAP).
- Company paid holidays, paid sick leave, and vacation time.
- Paid Family Leave and other leaves of absence in accordance with applicable laws.
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