Sr Software Engineer, Graviton Software, Annapurna Labs

About this role

## DESCRIPTION

This opportunity is open for Austin, TX.

The AWS Graviton Software team is seeking Software Engineers to optimize performance for AWS Graviton.

Graviton delivers the best price/performance in AWS data centers. For the past 2 years, Graviton has powered the majority of new EC2 capacity and is used by over 90% of our largest customers.


You'll drive performance optimization across open source projects, internal services, and customer applications, working on everything from Linux kernel development to C++/Rust debugging to assembly-level optimization. Our team optimizes a diverse range of applications including databases, web services, games, video encoding, ML, and HPC workloads.


This doesn’t mean you have or will have all those skills, but you’ll have a chance to learn from those who do. This is a unique opportunity to impact how software runs in AWS, while growing your technical breadth and depth.

Key job responsibilities
As a Graviton Software Developer, you will:

Performance Optimization & Analysis

• Enhance architectures and algorithms for optimal performance
• Use tools like Aperf, sysstat, sysctl, perf to identify bottlenecks
• Monitor and analyze processor, OS, and workload metrics
• Optimize software performance for AWS customers and AWS services (such as S3, Lambda, EMR, ElastiCache, RDS ..etc)

Open Source Development

• Contribute to Linux kernel improvements
• Contribute to various other open source projects
• Develop analysis frameworks and automation systems

Tool(s) Development

• Enhance APerf (our open-source Rust-based performance tool)
• Create new performance analysis features
• Build and maintain automation solutions

The role offers opportunities to work on latest CPU technology while contributing to both AWS and the open source community.

A day in the life
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