Software Engineer- Systems

Apple•San Diego, CA

19h•Onsite

About The Position

Imagine what you can do here. Apple is a place where extraordinary people gather to do their lives best work. Together we create products and experiences people once couldn’t have imagined, and now, can’t imagine living without. It’s the diversity of those people and their ideas that inspires the innovation that runs through everything we do. Work across teams at Apple to drive improvements in core technical frameworks. Improve the launch speed, processing speed, memory size, and power consumption of the WebKit framework. Diagnose engineering performance issues, identify and correct recent performance regressions. Investigate cases of poor performance in WebKit-based engineering applications. Identifying software engineering performance bottlenecks and hot spots in the WebKit engine. Create and defend performance benchmarks covering important web technologies. Interact with software engineering developers on the Open Source WebKit project. Utilize debugging and software engineering tools. Train others in performance improvement techniques. 40 hours/week. At Apple, base pay is one part of our total compensation package and is determined within a range. This provides the opportunity to progress as you grow and develop within a role. The base pay range for this role is between $139,500 - $210,100/yr and your base pay will depend on your skills, qualifications, experience, and location.

Requirements

Utilizing C++ with manual memory management to implement algorithms and data structures.
Building end-to-end tests to gather performance metrics of software written in a manual memory management language such as C++.
Utilizing statistical methods to verify software performance written in a manual memory management language such as C++.
Utilizing algorithms and data structures used in code generation to implement or improve correct and efficient parsers.
Leveraging concurrency and multithreaded programming techniques to improve the performance and/or throughput of software.
Utilizing interprocess communication to efficiently send data between multiple processes.
Identifying security concerns in a manual memory management language such as C++ including use-after-free, type confusion, and buffer overflow vulnerabilities.

Responsibilities

Drive improvements in core technical frameworks.
Improve the launch speed, processing speed, memory size, and power consumption of the WebKit framework.
Diagnose engineering performance issues, identify and correct recent performance regressions.
Investigate cases of poor performance in WebKit-based engineering applications.
Identify software engineering performance bottlenecks and hot spots in the WebKit engine.
Create and defend performance benchmarks covering important web technologies.
Interact with software engineering developers on the Open Source WebKit project.
Utilize debugging and software engineering tools.
Train others in performance improvement techniques.