Software Engineer

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Job Description:

Join our ESXi App Infrastructure team of VCF division to design, implement and troubleshoot cutting edge core platform aspects at the user-level for the industry leading ESXi Virtualization platform.  You will be building a robust and secure host infrastructure that enables our customers, partners and internal teams to run their modern applications and containerized workloads on ESXi.   

ESXi Operating System is at the core of VMware Cloud Foundation's (VCF) virtualization technology. It is an operating system and virtualization infrastructure built from scratch for the explicit purpose of running virtual machines.  ESXi is the leading data center operating system in the world, and is used by most large corporations, due to its advanced capabilities, performance, and quality. ESXi App infrastructure team is responsible for design, implementation and architectural direction of ESXi Userspace. 

As a member of ESXi App infra team, your responsibilities will include, but are not limited to:

• Developing and maintaining key ESXi infrastructure services: This encompasses services such as vmsyslogd, NTP/PTP, healthd, and snmpd.

• Implementing and enforcing key security aspects: This involves working with mandatory access controls and enforcing least privilege policies.

• Integrating and maintaining open-source infrastructure components: This includes key OSS pieces like Python and GCC.

• Streamlining ESXi extensions for partners: Ensure seamless integration for all partner extensions.

• Enhancing internal productivity: Drive efficiency by making ESXi build systems robust, secure and efficient; Developing tooling & debugging infrastructure for ESXi. 

The ideal candidate possesses deep expertise in systems software and a solid understanding of operating systems.

Required Skills & Experience:

• 12+ years of relevant experience. 

• Proven deep technical understanding and working experience in key system concepts, including multi-threaded programming, IPC, synchronization, locking, and memory management on Unix/Linux Platfroms.

• Hands on experience developing user space applications for Linux/Unix in C/C++

• ​​Proven track record in designing and implementing data structures, algorithms, system libraries, APIs and system services. 

• Experience with open-source, including using its components and, where applicable, contributing changes upstream.

• Strong programming skills in C & C++. 

• Strongly prefer candidates with prior experience in build systems (e.g., Bazel) and developer tools.

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