OverviewThis opportunity is open for Austin, Cupertino and Seattle.
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 and powers the majority of new EC2 capacity.
You'll drive performance optimization across open source projects, internal services, and customer applications, working on a range from Linux kernel development to C++/Rust debugging to assembly-level optimization.
This is a unique opportunity to impact how software runs in AWS, while growing your technical breadth and depth.
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
The role offers opportunities to work on latest CPU technology while contributing to both AWS and the open source community.
Day in the Life
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Work/Life Balance
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We believe striking the right balance between your personal and professional life is critical to life-long happiness and fulfillment.
We offer flexibility in working hours and encourage you to find your own balance between your work and personal lives.
Mentorship & Career Growth
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.
We care about your career growth and strive to assign projects based on what will help each team member develop into a better-rounded professional and enable them to take on more complex tasks in the future.
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 GitHub
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 (design patterns, reliability and scaling) 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
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Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets.
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.
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