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Description

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 3 years, Graviton has powered the majority of new EC2 capacity and is used by over 98% 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

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

A day in the life
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