Software Engineer, Fuchsia Performance

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Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 5 years of experience with software development in one or more programming languages.
• 3 years of experience testing, maintaining, or launching software products, and 1 year of experience with software design and architecture.
• 3 years of experience in optimizing code/algorithms/app performance, and performance related tools to harnessing, tracing, or CPU profiling.
• 2 years of experience in the following programming languages: C++, Python, and SQL.

Preferred qualifications:

• Master's degree or PhD in Computer Science or related technical fields.
• 5 years of experience with data structures/algorithms.
• Experience in Rust, Data Analysis, Operating Systems (e.g., Linux, iOS).
• Understanding of low level coding, embedded, or firmware systems.
• Ability to work across the operating system stack, from writing performance tooling, to monitoring and presenting product metrics.

About The Job
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.

The Platforms and Devices team encompasses Google's various computing software platforms across environments (desktop, mobile, applications), as well as our first party devices and services that combine the best of Google AI, software, and hardware. Teams across this area research, design, and develop new technologies to make our user's interaction with computing faster and more seamless, building innovative experiences for our users around the world.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain a comprehensive suite of automated performance tests and frameworks that ensure Fuchsia's optimal performance across various products.
• Analyze complex trace data and large-scale performance datasets to derive actionable metrics and identify critical optimization opportunities. Lead efforts to transform raw data into clear, impactful insights that drive product performance improvements.
• Partner with teams across the organization, providing expert guidance on performance analysis, optimization strategies, and benchmark development to ensure their code leverages performance analysis tools effectively.
• Design, implement, and maintain advanced performance analysis tools for Fuchsia across different architectures and products, leveraging tracing, profiling, and other techniques.

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