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JD: Performance Engineer
Role Overview:
Cohesity is seeing rapid adoption in enterprises and the scale of deployments is increasing every quarter. Performance is one of the crucial components for providing a seamless user experience when running different workloads. It is the most highly visible and impactful area that has a potential for defining the future directions for Cohesity’s hyperconverged appliance.
Ideal candidate is passionate about performance, has an intuitive understanding of the limits of every layer in the hardware/software stack, has the intellectual rigor to reason about the theoretical limits of our software architecture and own the areas with the highest impact.
Responsibilities:
- Work within the engineering team to own and lead performance measurement and analysis efforts for Cohesity platform.
- Build world-class performance measurement and analysis infrastructure.
- Analyze and optimize large-scale code and underlying platform
- Design:
- Performance measurement methodology to benchmark the peak performance
- Customer-like workloads to characterize and tune steady state behavior
- Analyze performance bottlenecks, root cause issues, file defects, follow up with developers, documentation and other teams on the resolution.
- Able to derive meaningful insights from the collected performance data, articulate performance findings effectively with senior team members to evaluate design choices.
- Develop and automate performance benchmarking and analysis tools
- Analyze and debug performance issues in customer environments.
- Optimize CPU, memory, I/O, network and storage usage in our backend infrastructure
Requirements:
- Bachelors or Masters degree in CS or EE. PhD is a plus.
- Minimum of 5 years of relevant experience in performance analysis/optimization for production software
- Passionate about performance measurement and high bar for quality of the product.
- Creative, independent, self-motivated and willing to learn new technology.
- Knowledge of distributed systems architecture and performance trade-offs.
- Excellent troubleshooting abilities/skills
- Good knowledge of Linux
- Proficiency in any of C/C++, Java, Go and Python programming languages.
- Experience in building large-scale distributed systems (filesystems, databases, storage, map-reduce frameworks, etc.).
- Experience with systems performance analysis using techniques like CPU profiling, tracing by using standard linux tools.
- Strong analytical and problem solving skills.
- Knowledge of ESXi, HyperV, KVM is a plus.
- Understanding of storage concepts is a plus.
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In-Office Expectations
Cohesity employees who are within a reasonable commute (e.g. within a forty-five (45) minute average travel time) work out of our core offices 2-3 days a week of their choosing.
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