Senior Enterprise & Database Performance Engineer

Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.; Texas; On-site; USD 140,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. (AMD) seeks an end-to-end performance engineer to own enterprise and database workloads, tuning CPU behavior, memory hierarchy, and software configuration to reveal actionable, reproducible results.

You will compare AMD EPYC with Intel Xeon and evaluate Arm platforms for enterprise use cases. You will deploy, profile, diagnose root causes, and communicate results clearly, ensuring benchmarks reflect realistic deployments and actionable insights for future

Qualifications

• Extensive hands-on performance engineering experience with enterprise/server applications.
• "Cross-ISA" enterprise workload experience on Arm.
• Experience tuning full software stacks and distinguishing CPU limits from storage/network/runtime/config artifacts.
• Strong Linux and system-administration skills with scripting and repeatable setups.
• Experience with profiling tools, hardware performance counters, NUMA analysis and system-level tuning.

Responsibilities

• Define and maintain an enterprise workload taxonomy across databases and server apps.
• Develop methods for throughput, latency, scale-out behavior and SLAs.
• Analyze AMD vs Intel performance focusing on core configuration, frequency, memory and platform setup.
• Tune compilers, JVM, databases and libraries to reflect realistic deployment choices.
• Use profiling data to explain CPU stalls and bottlenecks with reproducible methods.
• Create deep-dive reports and executive summaries showing key lead areas and mitigations.

Skills

Performance engineering

Linux administration

Benchmarking

Profiling tools

NUMA analysis

Scripting

JVM performance

System tuning

Education

Bachelor’s or Master’s in Electrical Engineering / Computer Engineering / Computer Science

Tools

Oracle

SQL Server

PostgreSQL

MySQL

Job description

Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. (AMD) seeks an end-to-end performance engineer to own enterprise and database workloads, tuning CPU behavior, memory hierarchy, and software configuration to reveal actionable, reproducible results.

You will compare AMD EPYC with Intel Xeon and evaluate Arm platforms for enterprise use cases. You will deploy, profile, diagnose root causes, and communicate results clearly, ensuring benchmarks reflect realistic deployments and actionable insights for future