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# Senior Software Engineer, Graviton Software

- **Company:** Amazon.com, Inc.
- **Location:** Cupertino, CA, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $193,300.0 - $261,500.0
- **Contract:** Internship / Graduate position
- **Skills:** Amazon Web Services, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud, Amazon S3, C++ (Programming Language), Compilers, Computer Programming, Databases, Software Debugging, Software Design Patterns, Memory Management, Linux Kernel, Machine Learning, Open Source Technology, Performance Tuning, Software Architecture, Software Engineering, Video Encoding, Web Services, High Performance Computing, Amazon ElastiCache, Parallel Computation, Information Technology, AWS Data Analytics, Software Performance, Programming Languages
- **Published:** September 17, 2026
- **Apply:** https://dejobs.org/x/x/FC3CDF522DA240B4846031A66F837060/job/

## About the Role

* 5+ years of non-internship professional software development experience
 * 5+ years of programming with at least one software programming language experience
 * 5+ years of leading design or architecture (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
 * Experience as a mentor, tech lead or leading an engineering team, * Knowledge of system performance, memory management, and parallel computing principles
 * Experience building complex software systems that have been successfully delivered to customers
 * Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent

## Description

The AWS Graviton Software team is looking for Sr Software Development Engineers to optimize performance for Graviton processors.

Graviton delivers the best price/performance in AWS data centers. For the past 3 years more than half of the new AWS EC2 capacity is Graviton based and it is used by over 98% of our 1000 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++ and Rust code debugging and optimization. Our team works on a diverse range of applications including databases, web services, compilers, video encoding, ML, and HPC workloads.

Hardware related knowledge is useful, but not required., * Performance Analysis and Optimization: root cause and enhance software architectures, algorithms

 * Optimize software performance for AWS customers and AWS services: S3, Lambda, EMR, ElastiCache, RDS, and others
 * Open Source Development: contribute to Linux kernel improvements and other public projects
 * Develop analysis frameworks and automation systems