Senior Performance Engineer: Optimize Systems at Scale

Google; San Jose (CA); On-site; USD 174,000 - 252,000; Full time

Job summary

Google hires software engineers to develop next-generation technologies that scale for billions of users, across information retrieval, distributed computing, and large-scale systems. Engineers work on projects with potential to switch teams as the company grows, tackling full-stack challenges and performance improvements.

Our Core team builds the foundational design elements, developer platforms, and infrastructure that enable safe, coherent experiences and drive innovation across Google’s

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++

Data structures & algorithms

Software testing & launch

Software design & architecture

Compiler technologies

Education

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience

Master’s degree or PhD in CS or related field

Job description

Google hires software engineers to develop next-generation technologies that scale for billions of users, across information retrieval, distributed computing, and large-scale systems. Engineers work on projects with potential to switch teams as the company grows, tackling full-stack challenges and performance improvements.

Our Core team builds the foundational design elements, developer platforms, and infrastructure that enable safe, coherent experiences and drive innovation across Google’s