Requirements and Responsibilities:

• Perform ongoing detailed hardware and software performance analysis of Avere products under a variety of internal and industry standard benchmarks.
• Identify hardware and software bottlenecks and work with the appropriate development teams to implement performance improvements.

• Implement improvements in system performance tracking and measurement

• Help define new hardware platforms utilizing high speed networking, disk, CPU and flash technology

• Work with flash vendors to characterize new flash-based products for possible inclusion in Avere hardware platforms

• Work with networking vendors to characterize new high-speed networking products for possible inclusion in Avere hardware platforms

• Support field engineering with performance profiling and analysis of customer workloads, and define necessary improvements in tiering algorithms for both data center and WAN deployments

• Represent Avere in storage industry committees for both flash and storage benchmark standards

• Assist in the development of white papers and third party tests that demonstrates the Avere value propositions in key verticals

• Publish results for Avere products running industry standard benchmarks

• Ethernet, Infiniband, TCP/IP, IPv6)

• Demonstrated ability to write C/C++ code for both kernel and user level applications

• Experience developing software for Linux, FreeBSD, or other UNIX/UNIX-like operating systems

• Experience leading or coordinating technical projects

• Experience developing software and testing/analysis tools in Python or other modern scripting languages

• Experience profiling performance and workloads on hard disk drives, solid state disk drives or flash memory components

• Solid understanding of processor cache memory architectures and virtual memory architectures

Solid understanding of networking technologies and protocols (10Gb