Graviton Performance Engineer – Open Source & Systems

Amazon Inc.; Cupertino (CA); On-site; USD 193,000 - 262,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

401(k) matching

Paid time off

Parental leave

Job summary

Amazon Inc. in Cupertino, CA seeks a Sr Software Development Engineer to optimize performance for Graviton processors and AWS services. You will work on Linux kernel components, C++, and Rust, improving performance across open-source projects and internal systems.

You will drive analysis, design, and mentoring within a team that touches databases, web services, compilers, video encoding, ML and HPC workloads. Hardware knowledge is helpful but not required.

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
• Experience as a mentor, tech lead or leading an engineering team
• Experience contributing to open-source projects is a plus

Responsibilities

• Performance Analysis and Optimization: root cause and enhance software architectures, algorithms
• Optimize software performance for AWS customers and AWS services: S3, Lambda, EMR, ElastiCache, RDS, and others
• Open Source Development: contribute to Linux kernel improvements and other public projects
• Develop analysis frameworks and automation systems

Skills

Performance analysis

Optimization

Linux kernel

C++

Rust

Mentor/leadership

Education

Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent

Job description

Amazon Inc. in Cupertino, CA seeks a Sr Software Development Engineer to optimize performance for Graviton processors and AWS services. You will work on Linux kernel components, C++, and Rust, improving performance across open-source projects and internal systems.

You will drive analysis, design, and mentoring within a team that touches databases, web services, compilers, video encoding, ML and HPC workloads. Hardware knowledge is helpful but not required.