Sr Software Engineer, Graviton Software, Annapurna Labs

Amazon • Austin, TX

55d

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
• Experience as a mentor, tech lead or leading an engineering team

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

• We offer flexibility in working hours and encourage you to find your own balance between your work and personal lives.
• We have innovative benefit offerings
• Amazon is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered, equity, sign-on payments, and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package, in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits.

What This Job Offers

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