Software Dev Engineer I Graviton Software, Annapurna Labs

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.

Youll 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 doesnt mean you have or will have all those skills but youll 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 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 APerf (our open-source Rust-based performance tool)
- Create new performance analysis features
- Build and maintain automation solutions

- Are 18 years of age or older
- Experience with at least one modern language such as Java Python C or C# including object-oriented design
- Experience with at least one general-purpose programming language such as Java Python C C# Go Rust or TypeScript
- Experience with data structure implementation basic algorithm development and/or object-oriented design principles

- Experience from a technical internship
- Experience in optimization mathematics such as linear programming and nonlinear optimization
- Experience with distributed multi-tiered systems algorithms and relational databases
- Work 40 hours/week and overtime as required
- Experience from previous technical internship(s) or demonstrated project experience
- Experience with Cloud platforms (preferably AWS) database systems (SQL and NoSQL) AI tools for development productivity contributing to open-source projects and/or version control systems

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The base salary range for this position is listed below. Your Amazon package will include sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience qualifications and location. Amazon also offers comprehensive benefits including 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 and parental leave. Learn more about our benefits at TX Austin - 110500.00 - 160000.00 USD annually