Storage Systems Software Engineer
- Palo Alto, CA
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StorageSystemsSoftwareEngineer
VMware Research Translation
Palo Alto, CA
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Job Opportunity in VMwareResearch & Emerging TechnologiesGroup
Join us to incubatetechnology-forward products and services!The VMwareResearchand Emerging Technologiesgroupseeks to hiretalentedsoftware engineerswho will help incubate new businessopportunitiesbased on cutting-edge research ideasin the area of storage systems. Theseresearchideas,initially explored inVMware's internal research group and/orour academiccollaborations, arematured into new product offeringsviaVMware Research Translation (vRTX, pronounced "vortex")projects. Typically, vRTX projectsrun for up to two years anddevelop software artifacts (technology previews, proofs of concept, minimum viable products) that illuminate the advantages of early stage research ideas and serveas vehicles for collaboration with potential customers to assess product/market fit.
vRTXsoftwareengineers must haveexceptional software development abilities.Projects may pivot more frequently than roadmap products, and intensive customer interactions can put a high premium on rapid prototyping skills.The ability to work effectively with customer engineering teams on POCs is important.Teams are usually small (~3-4 engineers) so versatility and teamwork are essential.
For the envisioned project, the ideal candidate will beknowledgeable about(and better still a contributor to)the state of the art in storage systems,embeddedkey-value stores,OLTP, OLAP,and interactions between key-value stores and database systems higher in the stack.SaaS experience is desirable. Distributed systems expertise is also desirable.
Role and Responsibilities
- You will be contributing to architecture, design, and implementation ofsoftware projectbased on emerging research ideasin the area of key-value stores. These will initially be dynamic, evolving prototypes and MVPs
- You will assist with debugging and verification of defects in your own and others' work
- You mayparticipate in customer meetings to understand use cases and requirements
- You mayparticipate inadvanced developmentactivities within VMware or in universities toadvance the state of the art
Required Skills
- Expertise inthe project-specific technical areas including storage systems, key-value databases, and theintegration of these componentsin modernbigdata ingest and processing pipelines
- Production-levelcodingexperience inC
- Experience and demonstrated success in advanced development and/or research project implementation
- Experienceengineering systems for high concurrency and many-core scaling
- Experience with modernstorage-related data structures and algorithms
PreferredSkills
- Experience with emerging technologies related to storage, such aspmemandNVMe
- Experience creating SaaS database or data processing systems
- Experience benchmarking and optimizing data systems
- Exposure to multiple programming languages is important, as the ability to pick up and use the language that suits a body of work is expected
- Experience in a range of system programming languages beyond C
Education
Master's(preferred) or bachelor'sdegree in Computer Sciencewithcomparable work experience.
PhD in a relevant specialty would be a positive credential.
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