Carbon Black is now part of VMware. As a standalone company, Carbon Black established itself as a leader in the endpoint security space. The product portfolio includes the rapidly growing Carbon Black Cloud platform that delivers next-generation endpoint protection capabilities from the cloud. Now with the full resources of VMware, you have the opportunity to make an impact and build upon Carbon Black’s success.

We are seeking a talented engineer to work on performance at scale. In this role, you will characterize the overall customer experience at scale, focusing on finding and fixing performance bottlenecks and increasing scalability.

What You’ll Do

• Develop 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 requirements, design documentation, realistic endpoint events and scenarios
• 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
• 6+ years of experience in software engineering/testing
• 2+ years of experience with performance and scale engineering
• Strong analytical and programming skills (Python and/or Java preferred)
• Experience with UI performance and user concurrency test automation
• Strong understanding of OS fundamentals (Mac/ Linux/ Windows)
• Proven expertise in troubleshooting OS level performance issues
• Good Kubernetes diagnostic experience
• Understanding of cloud-scale and micro/macro-services architecture
• Strong written and verbal communication skills; 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 AWS, open source tools such as Kafka, Terraform, Spinnaker, InfluxDB, Elasticsearch a plus
• Good understanding of virtualization is a plus

Why VMware?

At VMware, we actively attract, engage and celebrate our people from a wide variety of dynamic backgrounds, experiences and perspectives. By doing so, we foster a culture that’s welcoming and supportive, where great people will want to work and thrive long term. This strength propels us towards our common goal of developing transformative products and services through our collaborative drive to imagine, define and deliver the future of IT. Take a look at some of benefits here: https://benefits.vmware.com/

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity. VMware is committed to Equal Employment Opportunity throughout our recruiting and hiring process and is dedicated to increasing diversity in our workplace.

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Category : Engineering and Technology
Subcategory: Software Engineering
Experience: Manager and Professional
Full Time/ Part Time: Full Time
Posted Date: 2020-06-22

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