Sr. Performance Benchmarking Engineer

Important Information

Location: Bangalore

Experience: 8+ years

Job Mode: Full-time 

Job Summary

As a Software Engineer III, you will play a critical role in developing and implementing secure software solutions to protect our systems and data.

Responsibilities and Duties

• Design, develop, and maintain secure software applications.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to understand system requirements and implement security measures
• Conduct code reviews and perform vulnerability assessments to identify and address security vulnerabilities
• Implement encryption, authentication, access control, and other security mechanisms in software systems
• Participate in the design and implementation of secure coding standards and guidelines
• Conduct penetration testing and security audits to identify and address potential risks
• Develop and maintain documentation related to security controls, processes, and incident response procedures
• Collaborate with IT teams to ensure the effective deployment and operation of security technologies

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
• Bachelor’s or master’s 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

About Encora

Encora is a global company that offers Software and Digital Engineering solutions. Our practices include Cloud Services, Product Engineering & Application Modernization, Data & Analytics, Digital Experience & Design Services, DevSecOps, Cybersecurity, Quality Engineering, AI & LLM Engineering, among others.

At Encora, we hire professionals based solely on their skills and do not discriminate based on age, disability, religion, gender, sexual orientation, socioeconomic status, or nationality.