Sr Software Engineer

Annapurna Labs (U.S.) Inc. is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join its Austin, Texas on-site team. The role centers on optimizing AWS Graviton performance across open-source projects, internal AWS services, and customer applications, with opportunities to contribute to the Linux kernel, APerf, and other open-source initiatives. The position offers a salary range of USD 168,100 to 227,400 per year.

Responsibilities

• Enhance architectures and algorithms for optimal performance
• Use tools such as Aperf, sysstat, sysctl, and 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, and more)
• Contribute to Linux kernel improvements
• Contribute to various other open source projects
• Develop analysis frameworks and automation systems
• Enhance APerf, the open-source Rust-based performance tool
• Create new performance analysis features
• Build and maintain automation solutions

Requirements

• 5+ years of non-internship professional software development experience
• 5+ years of programming with at least one software programming language
• 5+ years of leading design or architecture (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems
• 5+ years of full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations experience

Technologies

• APerf
• sysstat
• sysctl
• perf
• Linux kernel
• C++
• Rust

Benefits

• Health insurance
• 401(k) matching
• Paid time off
• Parental leave
• Sign-on payments
• Restricted stock units (RSUs)