Software Dev Engineer , Graviton Software, Annapurna Labs

Software Engineer

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, Elasti Cache, 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