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Apple WebKit Performance Engineer United States, California, San Diego 854299760
06.05.2025
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The WebKit Performance team is responsible for defending and improving the launch speed, processing speed, memory size, and power consumption of the WebKit framework. You will help improve WebKit performance on all Apple platforms
As a WebKit Performance Engineer, you will seek opportunities to improve WebKit performance in time, memory consumption, and power use. You will also be responsible for diagnosing performance issues, helping us identify and correct recent performance regressions, and helping to train and mentor others in performance improvement techniques. Specific job duties will include:Investigating cases of poor performance in WebKit-based applicationsIdentifying performance bottlenecks and hot-spots in the WebKit engineCreating and defending performance benchmarks covering important web technologiesInteracting with developers on the Open Source WebKit project.
- BS in Computer Science or equivalent education or work experience
- Experience with C, C++, or Objective-C
- Experience with performance analysis and optimization
- Detailed understanding of data structures and algorithms
- Experience with pointers, memory management, threads, and processes
- Engineers often build successful careers on the WebKit team without prior experience working in web browsers. Some of these skills can give you an effective head start:
- Experience with debugging and profiling tools
- Experience with Web technologies (HTML, CSS, DOM, JavaScript, SVG)
- Experience with UIKit and AppKit
- Experience with systems programming and inter-process communication
- Excellent debugging, critical thinking, analytical, and communication skills
Note: Apple benefit, compensation and employee stock programs are subject to eligibility requirements and other terms of the applicable plan or program.
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