Performance Engineer

Performance Engineer Locations

• San Jose, CA, USA
• New York, NY, USA

Mid

• 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.

• 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.

• Master's degree or PhD in Computer Science or related technical field.
• 1 year of experience in a technical leadership role.
• Experience with performance analysis and optimization on workloads.
• Experience with profile-driven optimizations.
• Experience with CPU microarchitectures.
• Experience with any low-level libraries at Google.

Google's software engineers develop the next-generation technologies that change how billions of users connect, explore, and interact with information and one another. Our products need to handle information at massive scale, and extend well beyond web search. We're looking for engineers who bring fresh ideas from all areas, including information retrieval, distributed computing, large-scale system design, networking and data storage, security, artificial intelligence, natural language processing, UI design, and mobile;

the list goes on and is growing every day. As a software engineer, you will work on a specific project critical to Google's needs with opportunities to switch teams and projects as you and our fast-paced business grow and evolve. We need our engineers to be versatile, display leadership qualities, and be enthusiastic to take on new problems across the full stack as we continue to push technology forward.

Our team's mission is to make computing faster and more efficient by analyzing application performance and RAM usage; identifying inefficiencies and other opportunities; optimizing core libraries and large applications; improving a common code improves all the applications that use it; and accurately estimating the performance benefit of changes.

The Core team builds the technical foundation behind Google's flagship products. We are owners and advocates for the underlying design elements, developer platforms, product components, and infrastructure se are the essential building blocks for excellent, safe, and coherent experiences for our users and drive the pace of innovation for every developer. We look across Google's products to build central solutions, break down technical barriers, and strengthen existing systems.

As the Core team, we have a mandate and a unique opportunity to impact important technical decisions across the company.

Individual pay is determined by factors including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training.

US: $174000 - $252000 (USD) + 15% bonus target + equity + benefits

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