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Google Senior Staff Software Engineer, Chrome Browser in Waterloo, Ontario

Minimum qualifications:

  • Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.

  • 8 years of experience in software development, and with data structures/algorithms.

  • 8 years of experience in performance evaluation and memory management on platforms.

  • 5 years of experience with design and architecture; and testing/launching software products.

Preferred qualifications:

  • Master’s degree or PhD in Engineering, Computer Science, or a related technical field.

  • 5 years of experience in a technical leadership role leading project teams and setting technical direction.

  • 3 years of experience working in a complex, matrixed organization involving cross-functional, or cross-business projects.

  • Experience with web performance and mobile web performance optimization strategies, tools, and techniques.

  • Experience with profiling, tuning, and optimization of large software systems across desktop/mobile devices.

Google's software developers 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 software developers 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 developer, 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 software developers 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.

With your technical expertise you will manage project priorities, deadlines, and deliverables. You will design, develop, test, deploy, maintain, and enhance software solutions.Chrome is dedicated to building a better, more open web. We’re focused on making a better browser (on both desktop and mobile) to help users take advantage of all the web has to offer in a safe and secure way.Chrome is available across all major platforms — iOS, Android, Windows, Mac, Linux and Chrome OS. We also built Chrome as an open source project so the entire web ecosystem could benefit from the latest innovations in speed, simplicity and security.

  • Lead team members working on performance projects in Chrome and provide technical leadership on high-impact projects. Influence and coach junior developers.

  • Coordinate across sites globally and across product areas (e.g., Chrome, Android, Play) on shared initiatives for optimizing the next generation of web experiences across form factors and devices capabilities.

  • Facilitate alignment and clarity across teams on goals, outcomes, and timelines, and manage project priorities, deadlines, and deliverables.

  • Demonstrate a passion for product excellence, code optimization, as well as designing frameworks and APIs that emphasize extensibility for multiple teams.

  • Evaluate new requirements from Android/OEMs and be able to propose new designs/optimizations to Chrome to match constraints (e.g., Chrome on Android performance on tablets devices/with a greater proportion of desktop contents).

Google is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. See also https://careers.google.com/eeo/ and https://careers.google.com/jobs/dist/legal/OFCCPEEOPost.pdf If you have a need that requires accommodation, please let us know by completing our Accommodations for Applicants form: https://goo.gl/forms/aBt6Pu71i1kzpLHe2.

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