VMware is looking for a highly-motivated individual to join the Platform Performance team to drive work on key scalability and performance challenges facing virtual platforms in the cloud.
The management suite consists of vCenter Server (VC) and other emerging cloud management software, including VMware’s integration with Kubernetes that helps customers to streamline the deployment of modern applications. As a performance engineer on this team, you will work on optimizing the end to end performance at scale for control plane workflows. This involves understanding and improving the performance of the management application and hypervisor stack. You will get the opportunity to develop performance management and diagnostic tools to measure and analyze bottlenecks and prototype improvements. You will partner closely with passionate performance engineers and developers to improve performance, author blogs and white papers and present technical best practices at academic and customer conferences.
Job Role & Responsibilities:
• Design and deploy cloud scale environments to study performance
• Develop and automate performance measurement and data analysis tools
• Develop performance diagnostics tools in the products
• Understand the products in depth to be able to identify bottlenecks in code/design/architecture
• You will prototype and implement optimization ideas
• Publish research papers and product performance technical white papers
• Research next generation architectures for cloud scale performance
Required Skills:
• 5+ years of relevant professional experience
• Strong programming skills in Java, and/or C/C++ and/or Java, Python and Bash scripting
• Strong Operating Systems fundamentals and Linux administration skills
• Excellent analytical, debugging, and troubleshooting skills
Good understanding of REST APIs and how to write code to exercise them
Working knowledge of Jenkins
Ability to analyze logs and extract performance-relevant information from them
• Experience in performance benchmarking, analysis and optimization of distributed, multi-threaded applications in Java or C/C+• Solid understanding of CPU, memory, network, and storage hardware and software subsystems as they relate to performance
• Proven ability to work well with others in a fast paced, iterative
development environment
• Excellent communication skills
• Bachelor or Masters degree in computer science or engineering
Preferred Skills:
• Strong understanding of system architecture, including processors, storage and networking
• Expertise with application profiling tools such as Yourkit/Jprobe/xperf/zoom
• Working knowledge of SQL database and statistical analysis tools like Tableau.
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Category : Engineering and Technology
Subcategory: Software Engineering
Experience: Manager and Professional
Full Time/ Part Time: Full Time
Posted Date: 2022-04-02
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