Software Engineer, Graviton Software, Annapurna Labs
Amazon · Austin, TX · Software Development
About this role
Amazon is hiring a mid-level Software Engineer based in Austin, TX. The posting calls out experience with Rust, AWS, Serverless, Linux. Compensation is listed at $143,700–$194,400 per year.
- Role
- Software Engineer
- Function
- software engineering
- Level
- mid
- Track
- Individual contributor
- Employment
- Full-time
- Location
- Austin, TX
- Department
- Software Development
- Posted
- Apr 9, 2026
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Job description
from Amazon careersThis opportunity is open for Austin. 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…