Performance Engineer: Fleet Optimization & Profiling

Google; Ionia (NY); On-site; USD 174,000 - 252,000; Full time

Job summary

Google is seeking a Performance Engineer in New York, NY. The role focuses on writing and testing development code, leading design reviews, and optimizing core libraries and runtimes to maximize fleet efficiency.

The team analyzes telemetry and profiling data, performing statistical assessments to quantify gains. Collaboration across Google Core ensures scalable impact across products and infrastructure.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 5 years of experience with software development in one or more programming languages, and with data structures/algorithms.
• 3 years of experience testing, maintaining, or launching software products, and 1 year of experience with software design and architecture.
• Experience with C++ programming language.
• Experience with compiler technologies.

Responsibilities

• Write and test product or system development code.
• Participate in, or lead design reviews with peers and stakeholders to decide amongst available technologies.
• Design and implement improvements to fundamental library code and runtimes, maximizing resource utilization across the fleet.
• Design and implement telemetry and profiling methods, as needed.
• Quantify the fleet-scale impact of optimizations using statistical analysis.

Skills

C++

Compiler technologies

Software development

Performance analysis

Profiling

Education

Bachelor's degree

Master's degree

PhD

Job description

Google is seeking a Performance Engineer in New York, NY. The role focuses on writing and testing development code, leading design reviews, and optimizing core libraries and runtimes to maximize fleet efficiency.

The team analyzes telemetry and profiling data, performing statistical assessments to quantify gains. Collaboration across Google Core ensures scalable impact across products and infrastructure.