Remote Staff Software Engineer, Chromium Performance

Summary

Join The Browser Company in building a better way to use the internet by solving unique architectural and systems challenges as a Software Engineer on the Performance Team.

Requirements

• You have development or performance experience in Chromium, Fuchsia, or other large C++ based native applications
• You have experience tech leading critical projects or initiatives within your team and organization
• You’re able to identify and debug issues and make improvements on large, complex codebases that you might not be completely familiar with
• You’re pragmatic, motivated by nebulous problems, and excited to work in a startup environment with quick product validation cycles

Responsibilities

• Dive into the Chromium codebase and understand how we can improve Arc’s performance within a certain part of the technical stack across macOS and Windows
• Improve our systems and architecture so that Arc can be more performant in a variety of areas - RAM usage, CPU usage, battery life, interaction speed, and loading performance across macOS and Windows
• Collaborate with our Membership, Data, and Engineering teams to understand and triage user-facing performance issues
• Implement tooling and testing to measure various aspects of performance so that we can make data-informed improvements over time
• Improve our performance tooling and testing systems so that we can better detect and debug performance issues in production
• Improve the reliability of the Chromium codebase as it relates to overall quality of the end-user experience of the product

Benefits

• Comprehensive benefits package with employee medical, dental, and vision - we cover 100% of premiums for employees, and up to 95% for dependents
• 401k plan
• Flexible vacation policy - on average, our team members take between 15-20 vacation days a year, plus federal holidays (holidays vary by location)
• Remote-friendly working environment - our core working hours are 11 AM-2 PM Eastern Time Monday-Friday
• 12 weeks of paid parental leave
• $1,500 USD home office stipend