Job details
Job type full-time
Full job description
Vmware carbon black is leveraging the power of big data analytics to provide our customers with the tools and visibility to stop attacks before they startThe product portfolio includes the rapidly growing carbon black cloud platform that delivers next-generation endpoint protection capabilities from the cloudNow with the full resources of vmware, you’ll have the opportunity to make an impact and build upon carbon black’s success.
To deliver on this mission we are looking for a quality-focused senior performance test engineer to drive key projects within our production engineering groupProduction engineering sets the tone for product and operational quality standardsThis role will be both hands-on, working alongside other engineers to extend our performance tests and frameworks, work with dev teams to support gathering critical metrics, and act as a technical lead across multiple quality initiatives.
As a senior performance test engineer, you will strategize on and execute a battery of tests to reveal performance, scale and stability bottlenecks within our cloud and sensor platformsAs our customer base grows you will help achieve higher adoption without compromising on performance and stability
What you’ll do
Design and implement solutions to evaluate and improve performance and scalability
Root cause performance and scalability issues and contribute to product code to alleviate these issues
Optimize sizing of deployed component instances for cost optimization
Develop performance and scale test plans based on deep understanding of domain, architecture and product tech stack
Design and implement relevant simulators to ingest large scale data
Design, implement and maintain test frameworks
Support extended teams in troubleshooting problems, such as system malfunctions
Provide feedback, propose solutions and suggest improvements in the product
Deploy and manage aws instances to orchestrate the scale and performance testing pipeline.
Track test results as query-able time series data and alert upon failure in an automated fashion
Support test failure troubleshooting in various relevant pipelines
Support troubleshooting of customer reported scale and performance bugs and close the test coverage loop
Partner with other performance engineers and developers to develop best practices, author blogs and white papers, and present internally, at conferences, and directly to partners and customers
What you’ll bring
Bachelor in computer science or equivalent experience
8+ years of experience in software engineering, focusing on performance, scale
2+ years of experience with systems engineering and software development
2+ years of experience leading and mentoring scale/performance engineers
Strong analytical and programming skills (python and/or java preferred)
Strong understanding of os fundamentals (mac/ linux/ windows)
Proven expertise in troubleshooting os level performance issues
Expertise troubleshooting large scale data ingestion issues
Excellent kubernetes diagnostic experience
Understanding of cloud-scale and micro/macro-services architecture
Strong written and verbal communication skills and ability to lead discussions
Excellent troubleshooting skills and great attention to detail
Experience supporting an enterprise-level saas environment
Security experience a plus
Experience with persistence layer scale and performance troubleshooting
Experience with aws, open source tools such as kafka
Good understanding of virtualization is a plus
Category : engineering and technology
Subcategory: software engineering
Experience: manager and professional
Full time/ part time: full time
Posted date: 2021-07-23
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