ESX Engineer

About This Role

• Job Description At VMware by Broadcom, we are building new possibilities for our customers by accelerating digital business transformation.
• We're modernizing data centers for greater agility and productivity, integrating public clouds for faster time to market, empowering digital workspaces to improve mobile experiences, and transforming cyber security.
• The ESX Operating System is at the core of the VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) virtualization technology.
• It is an operating system and virtualization infrastructure built from scratch for the explicit purpose of running virtual machines.
• ESX is the leading data center operating system in the world, and is used by most large corporations, due to its advanced capabilities, performance, and quality.
• The ESX Core Platform Quality team is responsible for quality and reliability of ESX platform that is consumed by VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) software.
• ESX Core Platform Quality established the foundation for VCF and is a key differentiator for VCF product to our customers.
• As a member of ESX Core Platform Quality team, you will: Learn the tools and processes necessary to become a successful ESX and VMKernel engineer and will participate in the design and development of novel validation techniques and algorithms for ESX operating system that manages virtual and real computer hardware.
• Work closely with a technical lead and your manager to grow in your new position and define goals to continue growing in your career.
• Implement advanced test strategy and coverage for ESX vmkernel and userspace features, with emphasis on scalability, performance, reliability, and support of new hardware technologies.
• Work with multiple engineering teams to architect, design, implement and deliver test coverage for new products based on the enterprise-class VCF virtualization platform.
• Take on opportunities to own parts of ESX Core Platform validation projects and with experience, take on ownership and leading larger parts of projects.
• Our work will challenge your systems software development and problem-solving skills! Requirements BS degree in Computer Science or related field and 8+ years of relevant industry experience OR MS degree in Computer Science or related field and 6+ years of relevant industry experience.
• Good understanding of kernel-level memory scheduling, memory management, and memory reclamation.
• Understanding of kernel-level CPU management is a plus.
• Broad understanding of OS virtualization solutions, particularly experience with hypervisors such as ESXi.
• Hyper-V, KVM, XEN.
• Strong understanding of kernel-level OS architectures such as Linux, Unix, Solaris, BSD-like systems, embedded real-time Operating Systems.
• Extensive test and automation development experience and expertise for low level OS components.
• Experience with Intel x86 CPU architecture and Intel based server architecture.
• Similar experience and understanding of AMD architecture, a plus.
• Experience with hardware technologies.
• Excellent analytical, debugging and Python and C programming skills.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills.
• Additional Job Description: Compensation and Benefits The annual base salary range for this position is $ 120,000 - $192,000.
• 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.
• We will also consider qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records consistent with local law.
• If you are located outside USA, please be sure to fill out a home address as this will be used for future correspondence.