Staff Software Engineer, Chromium

Hi, we're The Browser Company 👋 and we're building a better way to use the internet.

Browsers are unique in that they are one of the only pieces of software that you share with your parents as well as your kids. Which makes sense, they're our doorway to the most important things — through them we socialize with loved ones, work on our passion projects, and explore our curiosities. But on their own, they don’t actually do a whole lot, they’re kind of just there. They don’t help us organize our messy lives or make it easier to compose our ideas. We believe that the browser could do so much more — it can empower and support the amazing things we do on the internet. That’s why we’re building one: a browser that can help us grow, create, and stay curious.

To accomplish this lofty task, we’re building a diverse team of people from different backgrounds and experiences. This isn’t optional, it’s crucial to our mission, as we need a wide range of perspectives to challenge our assumptions and shape our browser through a bold, creative lens. With that in mind, we especially encourage women, people of color, and others from historically marginalized groups to apply.

Building a web browser is an extraordinary technical and product undertaking. As a Software Engineer on the Performance Team, you will solve unique architectural and systems challenges to help us achieve our goal of making Arc the fastest browser on the market.

In this role, you’ll come up with creative ways to diagnose common complaints and implement creative ways to improve performance for Arc’s hundreds of thousands of members. Performance engineers here will not be limited to one aspect of the application but will have the agency to understand and prioritize work across our technical stack.

Overall you will...

• 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

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