Staff Systems Engineer

Summary

Join The Browser Company and help build a better way to use the internet. As a Systems Engineer on the Compiler Team, you will focus on improving the Swift compiler and toolchain to enable building for Windows. You will spearhead technical projects, port existing frameworks, monitor builds, maintain platform support, and contribute to the open-source community. The role requires 8+ years of operating systems or low-level systems experience and a passion for build systems and tooling. The company offers a flexible compensation model with a salary range of $225,000-$275,000, comprehensive benefits, flexible vacation, remote work options, and paid parental leave.

Requirements

• Operating systems or low level systems experience
• 8+ years of experience on the Operating System or other low level systems work
• A passion for build systems and tooling
• Systems thinker
• Pragmatism and problem-solving
• You’re time zone overlaps with our team

Responsibilities

• Spearhead technical projects for existing and new features across the Swift compiler, toolchain, SDK and frameworks for Windows
• Port existing frameworks to Windows and fix Windows-specific bugs and tests
• Monitor builds, investigating and fixing causes of failures in our Swift CI system
• Maintain and improve support for platforms under development and ones that are currently unsupported (Windows ARM64, Android, etc)
• Build a macOS toolchain via GHA that we can use as an alternative toolchain in Xcode
• Give back to the open source community
• Get onboarded onto the team and codebase with an onboarding buddy
• Attend a number of onboarding presentations on our product journey, the phases a startup goes through, our technical strategy, and more
• Get familiar with Swift, our Chromium architecture, build tooling, and client-side infrastructure
• Have shipped a few bug fixes and features across our codebase
• Be familiar with our Swift architecture and contribute to ideas that will make our engineers’ lives easier when prototyping and building new features
• Shipped a few tickets to improve infrastructure pieces like our AI product infrastructure, deployment systems, release process, or feature flags infrastructure
• Be involved in weekly engineering discussions about our architecture, code reviews, code style, and more
• Be involved in infrastructure discussions like how we add better observability to debug issues in production, how we better monitor performance regressions, or how we make our updater less finicky
• Be regularly posting feedback about using the browser in our #dogfooding channel
• Be interview trained and interviewing candidates for roles at The Browser Company
• Be driving projects from conception to production launch
• Be mentoring and pair programming with newer engineers to help them get spun up on the codebase

Preferred Qualifications

• Some familiarity with one of our operating systems (Windows, MacOS, Android, iOS) is preferred, but not required
• Linux, VR/AR, or gaming systems experience is great too!

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
• 12 weeks of paid parental leave
• $1,500 USD home office stipend
• Employees based in the US also receive additional services like free annual memberships to One Medical (where available), Talkspace, Teladoc, and HealthAdvocate