Software Dev Engineer I, Graviton Software, Annapurna Labs

About the role

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 3 years, Graviton has powered the majority of new EC2 capacity and is used by over 98% 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.

Key job responsibilities

Performance Optimization & Analysis

• Enhance architectures and algorithms for optimal performance
• Use tools like ABench, 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)

• Open Source Development
• Contribute to Linux kernel improvements
• Contribute to various other open source projects
• Develop analysis frameworks and automation systems
• Tool(s) Development
• Enhance ABench (our internal benchmarking tool)
• Create new performance analysis features
• Build and maintain automation solutions

Basic Qualifications

• Are 18 years of age or older
• Experience programming with at least one modern language such as Java, C++, or C# including object-oriented design
• Experience with data structure implementation, basic algorithm development, and/or object-oriented design principles

Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent
• Work 40 hours/week, and overtime as required
• Experience with distributed, multi-tiered systems, algorithms, and relational databases
• Experience from previous technical internship(s) or demonstrated project experience

Additional information

Our inclusive culture empowers Amazonians to deliver the best results for our customers. If the country/region you're applying in isn't listed, please contact your Recruiting Partner.

Pay and benefits

The starting pay for this position is listed below. Starting Day 1 of employment, Amazon offers EAP, Mental Health Support, Medical Advice Line, 401(k) matching.

Austin, TX, USA - 129,000.00 USD Annually