Staff Software Engineer, Performance Tooling

Arm Limited; Austin, Northern (TX, KY); Hybrid; USD 171,000 - 231,000; Full time

Job summary

Arm Limited in Austin, Texas is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to tackle complex systems problems and build high-performance software. You will work on Observe and Accelerate, delivering features and tooling for performance analysis across Arm solutions, with ownership from design through delivery.

The role requires 7+ years of hands-on software engineering, multi-language experience, and a strong ability to analyze, profile, and optimize systems.

Qualifications

• 7+ years hands-on software engineering experience with ownership from investigation to delivery.
• Experience across multiple languages, frameworks and tech stacks.
• Broad systems experience: apps, distributed systems, OS, virtualization, storage, networking.
• Experience building tools, diagnostics or automation with tests.
• Performance analysis, profiling, benchmarking, optimization, root-cause analysis.
• Ability to translate requirements into technical designs and review trades.
• Strong understanding of cloud platforms and Linux, plus modern CPU architectures.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and maintain performance analysis features and tools.
• Own software components from design to testing and release.
• Investigate software behavior across applications, distributed systems, OS, VMs, containers, storage, networking.
• Analyze workload and system performance with profiling and benchmarking.
• Collaborate with product and customer-facing teams to translate feedback into solutions.
• Demonstrate tools to customers and travel for on-site collaboration.
• Participate in design and code reviews, sharing technical tradeoffs.

Skills

Hands-on engineering

Multi-language development

Performance analysis

Debugging & troubleshooting

Code reviews

Distributed systems

Tools

Perf

Intel VTune

Linux tracing

NVIDIA profiling tools

Job description

Job Overview:

We are looking for a Staff Software Engineer who enjoys solving complex systems problems and building software that improves performance. Join our Observe and Accelerate team in Austin, Texas, in this hands‑on technical role! We create performance analysis toolkits used across Arm solutions.

Our focus is software engineering: designing and implementing new features, diagnosing technical issues, and developing tools for real‑world workloads. We need an engineer to reproduce problems, analyze performance, write maintainable code and deliver tested solutions, with ownership of the technical work from design through to delivery.

We are looking for more than seven years of software engineering experience, with evidence of delivering reliable software and resolving difficult technical problems. We value engineers who develop software in multiple languages and connect application behavior with the distributed and low‑level systems beneath it. We work with product and customer‑facing teams to turn user feedback into engineering improvements.

Would you like to turn challenging systems problems into software that makes a difference? We welcome new perspectives and ideas!

Responsibilities:

• Design, implement and maintain features and tools for performance analysis across Arm solutions
• Take hands‑on ownership of software components, from technical design and implementation through testing, integration and release
• Investigate software behavior across applications, distributed systems, operating systems, VMs, containers, storage and networking
• Analyze and optimize workload and system performance using profiling, tracing, benchmarking and experimentation
• Work with product and customer‑facing teams to translate requirements and user feedback into practical engineering solutions
• Demonstrate our performance tooling to customers, with a willingness to travel for on‑site collaboration
• Contribute to design and code reviews, explain technical tradeoffs and share knowledge to help the team deliver reliable software

Required Skills and Experience:

• We require more than 7 years of hands‑on software engineering experience. We look for evidence of designing, building and delivering software, with ownership of complex technical work from investigation through implementation and validation.
• Strong hands‑on software development experience across multiple programming languages, frameworks and technology stacks.
• Broad systems experience spanning several areas such as applications, distributed systems, operating systems, virtualization, storage and networking.
• Strong experience crafting and building tools, diagnostics or automation, with maintainable code and automated tests.
• Significant experience with performance analysis, profiling, benchmarking, optimization and root‑cause analysis.
• Ability to turn requirements into technical designs, evaluate tradeoffs and work with other engineers through implementation and code review.
• Good understanding of cloud platforms, Linux systems and modern CPU architectures, including how architectural differences affect software behavior and performance.

Nice To Have Skills and Experience:

• We welcome experience developing performance analysis, observability, profiling, benchmarking or optimization tools, including work with perf, Intel VTune, AMD uProf, NVIDIA profiling tools or Linux tracing technologies.
• Experience working with Arm architecture or Arm‑based cloud infrastructure.
• Understanding of processor architecture, memory hierarchy, cache behavior, NUMA and concurrency.
• Experience investigating performance in cloud‑native, distributed or Kubernetes‑based systems.
• Experience with major cloud platforms such as AWS, Microsoft Azure or Google Cloud Platform.
• Experience building developer‑facing products, SDKs or engineering productivity tooling.
• Experience using AI‑assisted development tools or agents to accelerate debugging, analysis or software development.

Additional Information

This role does not include a relocation package.

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Salary Range:

$170,900-$231,200 per year

We value people as individuals and our dedication is to reward people competitively and equitably for the work they do and the skills and experience they bring to Arm. Salary is only one component of Arm's offering. The total reward package will be shared with candidates during the recruitment and selection process.

Accommodations at Arm

At Arm, we want to build extraordinary teams. If you need an adjustment or an accommodation during the recruitment process, please email [e-mail]. To note, by sending us the requested information, you consent to its use by Arm to arrange for appropriate accommodations. All accommodation or adjustment requests will be treated with confidentiality, and information concerning these requests will only be disclosed as necessary to provide the accommodation. Although this is not an exhaustive list, examples of support include breaks between interviews, having documents read aloud, or office accessibility. Please email us about anything we can do to accommodate you during the recruitment process.

Hybrid Working at Arm

Arm's approach to hybrid working is designed to create a working environment that supports both high performance and personal wellbeing. We believe in bringing people together face to face to enable us to work at pace, whilst recognizing the value of flexibility. Within that framework, we empower groups/teams to determine their own hybrid working patterns, depending on the work and the team’s needs. Details of what this means for each role will be shared upon application. In some cases, the flexibility we can offer is limited by local legal, regulatory, tax, or other considerations, and where this is the case, we will collaborate with you to find the best solution. Please talk to us to find out more about what this could look like for you.

Equal Opportunities at Arm

Arm is an equal opportunity employer, committed to providing an environment of mutual respect where equal opportunities are available to all applicants and colleagues. We are a diverse organization of dedicated and innovative individuals, and don't discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or status as a protected veteran.