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Job type full-time
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Business summary
The vmware engineering services (ves) team ensures our internal and external customers enjoy a high-quality experience across the entire product portfolioOur goal is to provide compelling, innovative, scalable, and seamless engineering services, which will protect vmware’s brand reputation by continually improving customer satisfactionWe bring together key r&d functions such as build, performance, security, developer tools, and moreWe work hand-in-hand with development teams to focus on product innovation and industry-leading solutionsOur priorities include investing in r&d talent, sharing best practices, and driving scale and agility in vmware products.
Job role and responsibility
If you love computer architecture, operating systems, new hardware, and finding ways to make things go faster, this job is for youThe vsphere core performance team optimizes the design and implementation of esxi, the leading data center operating system in the world, used by 100% of fortune 100 companies and 99% of fortune 1000 companiesWe`re looking for an enthusiastic senior software engineer with performance optimization expertise to bring new cloud computing features and functionality to market.
In this role, you`ll...
Collaborate closely with other engineers on product design and implementation to increase the performance and scalability of new software stacks.
Identify bottlenecks and optimization opportunitiesDevise algorithms or code changes to maximize performance on both virtual and real hardware.
Work with prototype hardware and come up with ways to exploit new hardware capabilities.
Create performance analysis plans, define measurement methodology, and specify performance targets.
Design experiments to uncover problems in common and uncommon use cases and configurations.
Analyze performance data from hardware counters, profiling tools, custom experiments, microbenchmarks, and application benchmarks.
Troubleshoot and debug performance problems that involve multiple components and the entire stack (hardware, microcode, device drivers, hypervisor, guest os, networking, storage, applications, etc.).
Effectively present data, conclusions, and recommendationsBe able to excite and persuade both technical and non-technical audiences.
Optionally author patents, papers, presentations, blogs, and present at academic or industry conferences.
Required skills
Bachelors of science (or higher education) in computer science, computer engineering, or similar field.
4+ years of relevant hands-on software development or performance analysis experience.
Proven ability to root-cause poorly performing software.
Solid understanding of computer system architecture and operating system internals (e.gMemory hierarchy, memory address translations, interrupts, numa, memory-mapped io, etc.).
Low-level software (kernel, driver) development and debugging experience.
Proficient in c or c++
Proficient in python or shell scripting
Ability to exercise good judgement and operate independently.
Excellent communication, collaboration, and coordination skills.
Preferred skills
Development or performance analysis experience in two or more of these areas: nvdimm/dcpmm, memory management, networking drivers, arm (aarch64/armv8), cpu scheduling, multi-threaded software.
Understanding of modern intel and amd x86-based cpu architectures and/or large multi-socket systems
Understanding of virtualization technology and experience with virtualization environments (vsphere, xen, hyper-v, kvm, etc).
Ability to learn new technologies and product areas quickly.
This role is flexible and can be done from home, in a vmware office, or in a combination of the two anywhere in the united statesThis role is based in the us and unfortunately, we are unable to offer relocation assistance on this occasion.
Category : engineering and technology
Subcategory: software engineering
Experience: manager and professional
Full time/ part time: full time
Posted date: 2021-09-26
Vmware company overview: at vmware, we believe that software has the power to unlock new opportunities for people and our planetWe look beyond the barriers of compromise to engineer new ways to make technologies work together seamlesslyOur cloud, mobility, and security software form a flexible, consistent digital foundation for securely delivering the apps, services and experiences that are transforming business innovation around the globeAt the core of what we do are our people who deeply value execution, passion, integrity, customers, and communityShape what’s possible today at http://careers.vmware.com.
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