Sr Software Engineer, Graviton Software, Annapurna Labs

Sr Software Engineer, Graviton Software, Annapurna Labs

This opportunity is open for Austin, Cupertino and Seattle.

Overview

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.

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, Elasti Cache, RDS)

• 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

About the team

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 help internal and external customers to troubleshoot and fix performance bottlenecks that prevent them from using Graviton. We develop tools to automate most of the heavy lifting and maintain publicly available documentation:
Graviton Developer Guide on Git Hub.

Basic Qualifications

• 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 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

Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent

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

EEO Statement

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Compensation

The base pay for this position ranges from $151,300/year in our lowest geographic market up to $261,500/year in our highest geographic market. Pay is based on a number of factors including market location and may vary depending on job‑related knowledge, skills, and experience. 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.

For more information, please visit  . This position will remain posted until filled. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.

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