Principal Performance Engineer

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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.

As a part of the Central Performance Team at VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) in Broadcom we are looking for a Principal Performance Engineer (ICB5) to join our team! You will have the opportunity to create innovative solutions and solve complex problems. You’ll take ownership of meaningful, big-picture projects across different stacks in VCF. You will drive scalability and performance of VCF which includes flagship products such as vCenter Server, vSphere K8s Service, vSAN, NSX etc. You will learn in-depth about the existing solutions and products, new upcoming technologies, and hardware trends. 

You will develop solutions to improve performance and scalability, write benchmarks to evaluate performance across the VCF stack, identify and root cause performance issues. You will also be working with various cross functional teams with the opportunity to research ways to deliver the next generation software architectures for optimal performance and cloud scale. 

Key responsibilities and expectations include:

• Developing standard benchmarks for performance measurement in modern cloud environments

• Propose and/or implement comprehensive monitoring, logging in a distributed system environment

• Analyze product performance and scalability across a variety of system software configurations

• Understand the products in depth to be able to identify and resolve performance bottlenecks, ensuring efficient resource utilization and thereby improving performance

• Optimize modern applications for performance, scalability, and cost-efficiency

• Root-cause systems performance problems and implement solutions to resolve them

• Troubleshoot complex issues related to vCenter, vSphere K8s clusters, vSAN, NSX and/or other applications and services.

• Deep understanding of virtualization, K8s concepts and components.

• Strong in programming languages such as C, C++, Go and/or Java.

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science and 12+ years of related experience, Masters in Computer Science with 10+ years of experience, PhD with 7+ years of experience.

• Strong analytical, diagnostic, and problem-solving skills with the ability to work independently and collaboratively in a team environment with a positive attitude.

Preferred skills:

• Strong background and experience in systems Performance Engineering

• Strong analysis of performance problems at various layers of the systems software stack

• Experience in virtualization technologies including hypervisors, and virtual machines

• Strong experience in Linux Operating System, using different perf tools for performance monitoring/troubleshooting 

• Experience in performance benchmarking of distributed system applications

• Experience in micro-service architecture and related technologies like Docker, Kubernetes etc.

• Experience with application profiling tools such as Zoom/xperf and/or Yourkit/JProfiler/Jprobe

Join our team and help shape the future of on premise cloud computing with VMware Cloud Foundation. You'll have the chance to work on exciting projects, collaborate with talented professionals, and contribute to solutions that empower businesses worldwide.

Additional Job Description:

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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