Staff 1 Vsan Performance Engineering Job in Vmware

Job Description

VMware is looking for a Staff Engineer interested in joining the Storage I/O performance engineering R&D group. The team is primarily focused on the I/O performance of Virtual SAN (vSAN), vSphere core storage stack and storage availability solutions. The team is also engaged in building performance analytics solutions for VMware products. The candidate should be able to integrate performance considerations at the hardware, hypervisor, guest OS layers into an overall understanding of why various components of the storage software stack as well as various applications perform as they do, and then to communicate what is learned to the appropriate stakeholders. Extensive experience in measuring performance of traditional applications, modern applications and their benchmarking is highly desirable. The position involves dealing with customer escalations and working with other performance engineers as well as developers to improve the storage products, developing best practices, authoring blogs and whitepapers, and presenting internally, at conferences, and directly to partners and customers. Youll be part of a bright engineering team that has an open communication, empowerment, innovation, teamwork and customer success culture.

Requirements:

• A Bachelors or Masters in Computer Science or related field
• 10+ Years of industry experience
• Very good aptitude for performance engineering R&D and experience with performance benchmarks and methodology for traditional and modern applications
• Hands-on working experience in the development or performance engineering of Linux kernel, file systems or the core storage stack.
• Experience in building and leading Performance Engineering Infrastructure
• Good programming skills with Python, C/C++
• Significant experience working on large distributed systems
• Capable of architecting/understanding complex software solutions
• Solid understanding of CPU, memory, network, and storage hardware and software subsystems as they relate to performance
• Basic hypervisor and Linux system administration skills
• Excellent analytical skills
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills

Desired Skills:

• Experience with ESXi and Linux performance tools
• Strong background in operating system internals and computer architecture
• Strong background in networking or storage domains
• Exposure to data analytics, machine learning and statistical analysis