Open Source Performance Engineer (Linux/Kernel)

Amazon Web Services; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 144,000 - 194,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

401(k) matching

Paid time off

Parental leave

Job summary

Annapurna Labs in Austin is seeking a Software Engineer for the Graviton Software team to optimize performance across Linux kernel, C/C++/Rust components, and customer applications. You will work on performance analysis, architecture improvements, and open source collaborations to deliver high-performance AWS services.

You will learn from experts, contribute to open source projects, and help shape CPU technology for AWS.

Qualifications

• Experience programming with at least one software programming language.
• Strong grounding in performance optimization and systems design.

Responsibilities

• Optimize performance across Linux kernel, user-space, and AWS services.
• Identify bottlenecks using perf, sysstat, and related tools.
• Contribute to open source projects and internal tooling.
• Develop analysis frameworks and automation for performance work.

Skills

C/C++/Rust

Education

Bachelor's degree in computer science

Tools

APerf

sysstat

sysctl

perf

Job description

Annapurna Labs in Austin is seeking a Software Engineer for the Graviton Software team to optimize performance across Linux kernel, C/C++/Rust components, and customer applications. You will work on performance analysis, architecture improvements, and open source collaborations to deliver high-performance AWS services.

You will learn from experts, contribute to open source projects, and help shape CPU technology for AWS.