Principal Engineer - vSphere Kubernetes Service

Broadcom · USA-CA - Promontory B

staff software engineering Platform Engineer ic · Posted May 20, 2026
$141,300 – $226,000
USD per year

About this role

Broadcom is hiring a staff-level Platform Engineer in the software engineering function based in USA-CA - Promontory B. The posting calls out experience with Kubernetes, Docker, Istio, Git. Compensation is listed at $141,300–$226,000 per year.

Role
Platform Engineer
Function
software engineering
Level
staff
Track
Individual contributor
Employment
Full-time
Location
USA-CA - Promontory B
Posted
May 20, 2026

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Job Description:

The Problem We’re Solving

Enterprises want to run Kubernetes at scale — without becoming Kubernetes experts.

Today, many Broadcom customers run mission-critical workloads on vSphere, but adopting Kubernetes often means:

  • Operating a second control plane

  • Stitching together storage, networking, identity, and lifecycle tooling

  • Carrying ongoing operational and upgrade risk

This complexity slows adoption and creates reliability issues at scale.

Our mission: make Kubernetes boring and effectively disappear for enterprise operators — by embedding it directly into the vSphere control plane and making it behave like a first-class infrastructure primitive.

The Role: Principal Engineer, vSphere Kubernetes Service (VKS)

You’ll join the VKS team, responsible for the Kubernetes control plane that is built into VMware Cloud Foundation. 

Your job is to design and build a distributed management system that:

  • Runs Kubernetes control planes reliably across thousands of enterprise environments

  • Manages the full lifecycle of Kubernetes workload clusters

  • Integrates deeply with storage, networking, identity, and VM infrastructure

  • Preserves enterprise guarantees around availability, upgrades, and operability

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