Senior Performance Engineer

Broadcom Inc.; Palo Alto (CA); On-site; USD 127,000 - 225,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a Senior Performance Engineer to join their innovative VMware Cloud Foundation team. This role focuses on optimizing data path performance for advanced storage solutions, requiring a deep understanding of performance engineering and the software stack. The ideal candidate will leverage their extensive experience in Linux kernel development and distributed systems to enhance product performance and reliability. Join a collaborative team that values empowerment and innovation, while contributing to cutting-edge solutions that support critical business applications in a secure and efficient manner.

Benefits

Medical, dental and vision plans

401(K) participation with company matching

Employee Stock Purchase Program (ESPP)

Paid sick leave and vacation time

Company paid holidays

Employee Assistance Program (EAP)

Qualifications

• 12+ years of experience in performance engineering and R&D.
• Hands-on experience with Linux kernel and core storage stack.
• Strong analytical and communication skills required.

Responsibilities

• Integrate performance considerations across hardware and software layers.
• Deal with customer escalations and improve storage products.
• Develop best practices and author technical documentation.

Skills

Performance Engineering

Linux Kernel

Device Drivers

File Systems

Distributed Systems

Analytical Skills

Communication Skills

Education

Bachelor in Computer Science

Master in Computer Science

PhD in Computer Science

Tools

ESXi

Linux Performance Tools

Job description

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Senior Performance Engineer

Apply locations USA-CA - Promontory D USA-TX-Austin - River Place B7 time type Full time posted on Posted 3 Days Ago job requisition id R022707

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Job Description:

VCF Performance Engineering

Job Description:

Broadcom’s VMware Cloud Foundation is looking for aICB 5 engineerinterested in joining theVCF Performance EngineeringR&D group.

The VMware Cloud Foundation Division enables organizations around the world to run their business critical and modern applications in a secure, resilient, and cost-efficient manner. With our flagship product VMware vSphere, and our industry-leading technologies including vSAN, NSX and Aria, Broadcom customers receive the scale and agility of a public cloud with the security and performance of a private cloud. Modern infrastructures, accelerated application innovation, and predictable TCO savings and investment returns are just a few of the benefits from having a private cloud infrastructure powered by VMware Cloud Foundation. Together, our bold group of technology professionals with diverse backgrounds – spanning engineering, products, marketing, partners, professional services, and global support services – is focusing on what can be for the largest enterprises, governments, financial services, healthcare, manufacturing and educational institutions of the world.

Our team is primarily focused on the data path performance of advanced storage solutions like vSAN including bottleneck analysis and software architecture design and optimization for next generation hardware. The team is also engaged in designing and building performance analytics and observability 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. 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 and directly to partners and customers. You’ll be part of a bright engineering team that has an open communication, empowerment, innovation, teamwork and customer success culture.

Requirements:

o A Bachelors plus 12+ years OR Masters plus 10+ years OR PhD plus 7+ years in Computer Science or related field

o 7+ Years of industry experience

o Very good aptitude for performance engineering R&D and experience with performance benchmarks and methodology

o Hands-on working experience in the development or performance engineering of Linux kernel, device drivers, file systems or the core storage stack.

o Good programming skills

o Significant experience working on large distributed systems

o Capable of architecting/understanding complex software solutions

o Solid understanding of CPU, memory, network, and storage hardware and software subsystems as they relate to performance

o Basic hypervisor and Linux system administration skills

o Excellent analytical skills

o Excellent verbal and written communication skills

Desired Skills:

o Experience with ESXi and Linux performance tools

o Exposure to data analytics, machine learning and statistical analyses

o Strong background in operating system internals and computer architecture

Additional Job Description:

Compensation and Benefits

The annual base salary range for this position is $ 127,000 - $225,000.

This position is also eligible for a discretionary annual bonus in accordance with relevant plan documents, and equity in accordance with equity plan documents and equity award agreements.

Broadcom offers a competitive and comprehensive benefits package: Medical, dental and vision plans, 401(K) participation including company matching, Employee Stock Purchase Program (ESPP), Employee Assistance Program (EAP), company paid holidays, paid sick leave and vacation time. The company follows all applicable laws for Paid Family Leave and other leaves of absence.

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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