Member Technical Staff- Core Storage @ VMware

The VMware Core Storage Group is seeking a motivated engineer to join their team. Applicants must have excellent computer systems, algorithms and distributed systems background with few years of work experience. As part of your job, you will help design and implement distributed data management components including caching solutions as well as enhance the existing architecture. The team has in the past laid foundation for several vSphere features such as VMFS, vMotion, Storage vMotion, DRS, HA, and Fault Tolerance

• Performance Objectives: - Design and develop distributed cache management components to support and enable data and storage management features.

• Influence the design decision and implementation of next generation of storage architecture and build abstractions on top of it.

• Assist with debugging and verification of defects in the storage system software.

Competencies

• Strong C/C++ programming skills and several years of kernel development experience. 

• Solid working knowledge of operating systems (kernel level) and I/O architectures

• Expert in algorithms and data structures.

• Background with distributed memory caching systems.

• Experience resolving complex software defects, including reproducing problems based on written descriptions, applying relevant techniques to isolate root cause, tracing through large source code bases, and writing long-term fixes as well as short-term workarounds.

• Must have experience resolving complex storage defects. The candidate should have hands on experience with SAN configuration as well as a very good knowledge of various storage architectures (SCSI, RAID, NAS)

• Must have strong analytical, diagnostic and problem-solving skills with ability to work independently and be able to prioritize and handle multiple outstanding tasks

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