Performance Benchmarking Engineer

Performance Engineer

Requirements:

• 8+ years of software development with C/C++, Python
• 8-12 years of hands-on experience in performance benchmarking, performance tools, scripting, automation, and fault isolation on multi-core systems
• Recent first-hand experience running, profiling, and performance optimization of benchmarks like Dhrystone, Coremark, LMBench, STREAM, SPECCPU2017, SPECjbb2015, EEMBC...running in a Linux environment
• Hands on experience running, profiling, analyzing system bottlenecks and performance optimization of cloud workloads like Memcached, NGINX, MySQL, Redis, Cassandra, HBase etc. running in a Linux environment
• Linux application and kernel performance optimization - knowledge of perf, oprofile, flame graphs and getting visibility into performance bottlenecks
• Knowledge of competitive benchmarking workloads across Intel, AMD & ARM64 platforms
• Real world experience with GNU/LLVM tool chain & debuggers like GDB
• Capable of working independently with across geos and functional disciplines (hardware, SQA & product management teams)
• Excellent debugging skills
• Strong communication skills, technical fluency, empathy, humility and an appreciation for and understanding of lean startup
• Bachelors or Masters degree in computer science or related engineering fields

Skills & Qualifications Desirable:

• Good understanding of CPU architecture, ARM or X86. RISC-V architectural knowledge would be an added plus
• Experience in performance optimization at the firmware, bios, kernel, and application layers including hardware accelerators
• Experience working in multi-core, multi-process/thread environment
• Knowledge of open-source Linux, git repository maintenance and source code management