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Job Description:VCF Networking Performance Engineer
A Data Plane Performance Engineer focuses on optimizing network data processing and transmission within a system, ensuring efficient and reliable data flow. This involves designing, implementing, and testing performance improvements, analyzing data to identify bottlenecks, and collaborating with other teams to enhance overall system performance
You will be a key contributor to the next generation of networking applications using your expertise in advanced high performance, scalable, virtual networking data plane distributed systems, software technologies and open source tools to solve difficult customer use cases. You will be part of a bright engineering team that has open communication, innovation, empowerment and a customer success culture. You will collaborate with cross functional teams on innovative projects, with the authority and scope to apply your expertise in a fast-paced and technically driven environment.
Responsibilities
- Work on NSX Data Plane for the ESX hypervisor - the industry-leading virtual networking high performance data plane from Vmware by Broadcom.
- Hands-on performance development including CPU utilization, memory profiling, optimizations and benchmarking
- Characterize, analyze, optimize and benchmark performance, including applying performance tools
- Proficient at creating the testing strategy, detailed test cases and creating test data to ensure high quality of deliverables
- Write well-documented, high performance, reliable, maintainable code.
- Participate in specification, design, implementation, evangelism and support of the product, as well as improve existing features and product performance
- Provide technical leadership within a group on complex performance problems and issues and contributes to company patent portfolio and publications
- Work closely with DevOps
- Must have strong interpersonal skills and be able to work well in a team
Required Skills
- A firm grasp of virtual networking data plane technologies such as SDN, NFV, and DPDK, NIC Offloads
- In-depth hardware architectural knowledge including multi-core/multi-thread CPUs, pipelines, cache hierarchies, TLBs, interconnects and memory address translations, NUMA
- Hands-on performance development including CPU utilization, memory profiling, optimizations, and benchmarking
- Proficient in performance analysis, benchmarking, and trouble-shooting including data gathering, scalability testing, and system profiling is an advantage. Develop and utilize performance models and simulations to evaluate the impact of design changes and optimizations on the data plane
- Occasionally research innovative performance technologies, implement performance proofs points, and share your learnings with the team
- Knowledge and previous experience in developing performant software using Python, Java, or C/C++ for scripting, automation, and performance analysis.
- Strong analytical and problem solving skills, attention to detail
- Hard-working with a "whatever it takes" attitude.
- Desire to work in an exciting environment, working on interesting projects with multiple stakeholders and delivering new technologies and products to the marketplace.
- Foster innovation, creative thought and new ideas and / or solutions in team
Education
Bachelors and 9+ years or Masters and 7+ years of related experience or equivalent
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Compensation and Benefits
The annual base salary range for this position is $141,300 - $226,000.
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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