Senior Performance Engineer - Systems & Profiling

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

Job summary

Google Core team engineers work on the technical foundation behind Google’s flagship products, tackling compiler technologies, large-scale systems, and performance optimization. You will be part of a versatile group that values leadership, curiosity, and cross-domain contributions across full-stack needs.

The role emphasizes writing and testing code, reviewing designs, and optimizing core libraries and runtimes to reduce resource usage across the fleet, with opportunities to influence tooling

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 5 years of software development experience 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++ programming

Software development

Data structures & algorithms

Software testing

Compiler technologies

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience

Master's degree or PhD in CS or related field

Job description

Google Core team engineers work on the technical foundation behind Google’s flagship products, tackling compiler technologies, large-scale systems, and performance optimization. You will be part of a versatile group that values leadership, curiosity, and cross-domain contributions across full-stack needs.

The role emphasizes writing and testing code, reviewing designs, and optimizing core libraries and runtimes to reduce resource usage across the fleet, with opportunities to influence tooling