Sr Software Engineer, Graviton Software, Annapurna Labs; AWS

Sr Software Engineer, Graviton Software, Annapurna Labs

Location:

Austin, TX.

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. Over 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.

As a Graviton Software Developer, you will lead efforts such as:

• 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 (e.g., S3, Lambda, EMR, Elasti Cache, RDS)

• 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

Here at AWS, we embrace our differences and are committed to furthering our culture of inclusion. We offer flexibility in working hours and encourage you to find your own balance between your work and personal lives.

Our team is dedicated to supporting new members. We have a broad mix of experience levels and tenures, and we’re building an environment that celebrates knowledge sharing and mentorship.

The Graviton Software organization ports, optimizes, and develops software to drive down the cost of adoption and operation for the AWS Graviton instances. We pro‑actively improve and upstream open source software, including Linux kernel, operating system, compilers, libraries, and applications. We develop tools to automate most of the heavy lifting and maintain publicly available documentation:
Graviton Developer Guide on Git Hub.

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

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or equivalent
• Experience as a mentor, tech lead or leading an engineering team

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.

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Location:

Austin, TX – $ – $ USD annually.

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