Sr Software Engineer, Graviton Software, Annapurna Labs

Amazon • Cupertino, CA

21h

About The Position

The AWS Graviton Software team is seeking Software Engineers to optimize
performance for AWS Graviton.

Graviton delivers the best price/performance in AWS data centers. For the past 2
years, Graviton has powered the majority of new EC2 capacity and is used by over
90% of our largest customers.

You'll drive performance optimization across open source projects, internal
services, and customer applications, working on everything from Linux kernel
development to C++/Rust debugging to assembly-level optimization. Our team
optimizes a diverse range of applications including databases, web services,
games, video encoding, ML, and HPC workloads.

This doesn’t mean you have or will have all those skills, but you’ll have a
chance to learn from those who do. This is a unique opportunity to impact how
software runs in AWS, while growing your technical breadth and depth.

Requirements

• 5+ years of non-internship professional software development experience
• 5+ years of programming with at least one software programming language experience
• 5+ years of leading design or architecture (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
• 5+ years of full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations experience

Nice To Haves

• Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent

Responsibilities

• Enhance architectures and algorithms for optimal performance
• Use tools like Aperf, sysstat, sysctl, perf to identify bottlenecks
• Monitor and analyze processor, OS, and workload metrics
• Optimize software performance for AWS customers and AWS services (such as S3, Lambda, EMR, ElastiCache, RDS ..etc)
• Contribute to Linux kernel improvements
• Contribute to various other open source projects
• Develop analysis frameworks and automation systems
• Enhance APerf (our open-source Rust-based performance tool)
• Create new performance analysis features
• Build and maintain automation solutions

Benefits

• health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans, EAP, Mental Health Support, Medical Advice Line, Flexible Spending Accounts, Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage)
• 401(k) matching
• paid time off
• parental leave

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level