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Staff Web Performance Engineer, Android, Chrome

Google is a global technology company that develops innovative products and services used by billions of users worldwide.
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Staff Software Engineer
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5,000+ Employees
8+ years of experience
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Description For Staff Web Performance Engineer, Android, Chrome

Google is seeking a Staff Web Performance Engineer to join their Android and Chrome teams. This is a senior technical role focused on optimizing performance across Google's web and mobile platforms. The position requires deep expertise in performance engineering, system optimization, and technical leadership.

The role involves working on critical performance metrics that directly impact user experience across Chrome browser and Android devices. You'll be analyzing and optimizing various aspects like scroll performance, power consumption, rendering framerates, memory usage, and page load times both in laboratory and real-world conditions.

As a Staff Engineer, you'll have significant technical leadership responsibilities, including shaping the team's technical roadmap and leading cross-team collaboration efforts. You'll work closely with both Android and Chrome teams, as well as external OEM partners developing new Android devices.

The ideal candidate brings extensive experience in software development, particularly with C++ and complex system optimization. You should have a proven track record of designing and implementing large-scale software systems, with specific expertise in performance analysis and optimization, compilers, web technologies, and operating systems.

This position offers the opportunity to impact billions of users by improving the performance and user experience of Google's core products. You'll be working at the intersection of web and mobile technologies, helping to advance the state of the art in web performance on mobile devices.

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Responsibilities For Staff Web Performance Engineer, Android, Chrome

  • Analyze key performance metrics such as scroll jank, power consumption, rendering framerate, memory usage, page load time in the lab and field
  • Identify, design or implement optimizations in Chrome/WebView/V8/Android to improve user experience
  • Build tools and processes to scale up performance optimization efforts
  • Collaborate with Android and Chrome teams, and OEM teams developing new Android devices
  • Help shape the team's roadmap, lead cross-team collaborations and analysis/optimization projects

Requirements For Staff Web Performance Engineer, Android, Chrome

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  • Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience
  • 8 years of experience in software development using C++, and with data structures/algorithms
  • 5 years of experience testing, and launching software products
  • 3 years of experience with software design and architecture
  • Experience designing software systems, including requirements gathering, analysis, and design

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