Staff Performance Engineer, Firefox

🕒 October 9

🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $139k - $218k / year

⏰ Full Time

🔴 Lead

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📋 Description

• Write code and tests, build prototypes, tackle problems, and profile and analyze performance bottlenecks • Learn and solve problems across a large, complex, and evolving codebase • Use C++, JavaScript, Kotlin, Rust, and Python to fix performance issues, with emphasis on C++ and JavaScript • Educate engineers on other teams through code reviews, talks, tooling, and documentation • Break down complex performance problems into actionable next steps and drive them to completion • Partner with engineering teams across the organization to support and lead performance efforts • Contribute to performance benchmark direction and prioritize important improvements • Own browser performance for a significant area end to end and contribute to the Performance team's technical roadmap • Work with team members to bring the Open Web to millions of people

🎯 Requirements

• BS/MS in CS or CE, and 5+ years of relevant experience • Deep proficiency in C++ • Working proficiency in JavaScript • Proven experience developing performance-critical software • Experimental and measured approach to solving problems using measurement and experiments • Proven skill in debugging and analyzing performance bottlenecks, and using profiling tools such as VTune and Xperf • Experience with at least one of: multithreading and concurrency, disk I/O, or GPU work • Track record of driving projects to completion, including work spanning more than one engineer • Experience collaborating with engineers on other teams to deliver shared goals • Interest and ability to work in a distributed team, with strong asynchronous written and verbal communication skills

🏖️ Benefits

• Generous performance-based bonus plans to all eligible employees - we share in our success as one team • Rich medical, dental, and vision coverage • Generous retirement contributions with 100% immediate vesting (regardless of whether you contribute) • Quarterly all-company wellness days where everyone takes a pause together • Country specific holidays plus a day off for your birthday • One-time home office stipend • Annual professional development budget • Quarterly well-being stipend • Considerable paid parental leave • Employee referral bonus program • Other benefits (life/AD&D, disability, EAP, etc. - varies by country)

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