Thursday 31 July 2014

Software Engineer - Web Performance | LinkedIn | Mountain View, CA


Software Engineer - Web Performance | LinkedIn | Mountain View, CA


Software Engineer - Web Performance

LinkedIn - Mountain View, CA

Posted 1 day ago
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The engineering culture at LinkedIn is based on building and integrating cutting-edge technologies while encouraging creativity, innovation, and expansion. Our engineers constantly raise the bar for excellence, motivating each other to tackle challenges and take intelligent risks. The industry is moving fast and our engineers are right there with it! http://engineering.linkedin.com.


If you are intrigued by the challenges of working with large scale web applications spanning diverse technology stacks, then LinkedIn Performance is the team for you.We focus on speeding up and scaling our site, working in the presentation layer, mobile app clients, networks, as well as backend services and systems. We are looking for talented Software Engineers with a passion for frontend presentation technology and web performance, who can take on site speed analysis and code optimization challenges across multi-tiers with a focus in one or more of the following areas:



•Data collection and analysis: add code to collect web performance data, provide analysis to find hot spots

• Performance analysis tools: build tools to visualize real user monitoring (RUM) data

• Optimization: change system or application codes to optimize for the best site speed

• Drive and lead application optimization across teams: work with various teams to achieve site optimization targets

•Evangelize and support web performance best practices throughout the engineering team



Desired Skills and Experience:

• Passion for and/or expertise in working on web performance, experience in large scale websites a big plus

•Hands-on experience in HTML, JavaScript/Ajax, and CSS

•Knowledge of network performance such as DNS, TCP, HTTP, HTTP2.0/SPDY, or CDN for static or dynamic contents a big plus •Knowledge of mobile app client development and performance tuning a plus

•Experience using site speed analysis tools such as webpagetest, Firebug, Chrome developer tools

•Strong communication skills and ability to work with cross-functional teams

•Strong background in software development


http://www.linkedin.com/jobs2/view/18037528?trk=jserp_job_details_text



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