Performance Software Engineer I

Amazon; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 110,000 - 148,000; Full time

Job summary

Amazon’s Graviton Software team in Annapurna Labs seeks software engineers to optimize performance for AWS Graviton, spanning Linux kernel work to C++/Rust debugging and assembly-level tuning. You will impact how software runs in AWS, learning from experts and expanding technical breadth.

The role emphasizes performance analysis, open source collaboration, and building automation tooling to support AWS services and workloads such as S3, Lambda, EMR, and RDS. Austin, TX-based, full-time position.

Qualifications

• Experience programming with at least one modern language such as Java, C++, or C# including object-oriented design.
• Experience with data structure implementation, basic algorithm development, and/or object-oriented design principles.
• Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent

Responsibilities

• Performance Optimization & Analysis: Enhance architectures and algorithms for optimal performance, identify bottlenecks using benchmarking and profiling tools, monitor processor and OS metrics.
• Open Source Development: Contribute to Linux kernel improvements and other open source projects, develop analysis frameworks and automation systems.
• Tool(s) Development: Enhance ABench, create new performance analysis features, build and maintain automation solutions.

Skills

Java

C++

C#

Education

Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent

Tools

ABench

Aperf

sysstat

perf

Job description

Amazon’s Graviton Software team in Annapurna Labs seeks software engineers to optimize performance for AWS Graviton, spanning Linux kernel work to C++/Rust debugging and assembly-level tuning. You will impact how software runs in AWS, learning from experts and expanding technical breadth.

The role emphasizes performance analysis, open source collaboration, and building automation tooling to support AWS services and workloads such as S3, Lambda, EMR, and RDS. Austin, TX-based, full-time position.