Senior WebKit Performance Engineer - Accelerate Web on Apple

Apple Inc.; San Diego (CA); On-site; USD 175,000 - 308,500; Full time

Job summary

Apple Inc. in San Diego, CA, invites an experienced WebKit Performance Engineer to optimize execution time, memory usage, and power for one of the world’s most-used frameworks. You will diagnose performance issues, profile code, and drive improvements across Safari on Apple platforms.

You will collaborate with Open Source WebKit and internal teams, mentor others in performance techniques, and contribute to benchmarks and optimizations in C++, Objective-C, and Swift.

Qualifications

• BS in Computer Science or equivalent work experience.
• Expertise in C++.
• Experience with software performance measurement, analysis, and optimization.
• Detailed understanding of data structures and algorithms.
• Experience with pointers, memory management, threads, and processes.

Responsibilities

• Investigating cases of poor performance in WebKit-based applications
• Identifying performance bottlenecks and hot-spots in the WebKit framework.
• Creating and defending performance benchmarks covering important web technologies.
• Working across teams at Apple to drive improvements in core frameworks.
• Interacting with developers on the Open Source WebKit project.

Skills

C++

Performance analysis

Memory management

Data structures

Algorithms

Multithreading

Education

BS in Computer Science

Equivalent work experience

Tools

Objective-C

Swift

Cocoa APIs

UIKit

AppKit

Job description

Apple Inc. in San Diego, CA, invites an experienced WebKit Performance Engineer to optimize execution time, memory usage, and power for one of the world’s most-used frameworks. You will diagnose performance issues, profile code, and drive improvements across Safari on Apple platforms.

You will collaborate with Open Source WebKit and internal teams, mentor others in performance techniques, and contribute to benchmarks and optimizations in C++, Objective-C, and Swift.