Senior Software Engineer, Amazon
Graviton HPC
3+ days a week in office
The largest online retailer and technology provider
Job no longer available
The largest online retailer and technology provider
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
3+ days a week in office
1001+ employees
Company mission
To be Earth's most customer-centric company.
Role
Who you are
- 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
- 5+ years of full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations experience
- Experience as a mentor, tech lead or leading an engineering team
Desirable
- Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent
What the job involves
- The AWS Graviton Software team is looking for Sr Software Engineers to drive the optimization of open source and internal HPC applications
- Annapurna Labs, part of AWS, designed Graviton as a strategic initiative to improve how software works at Amazon scale
- Graviton is Arm-based CPU that delivers better performance, lower price and lower carbon footprint over comparable x86-based instances
- Amazon teams like RDS, ElastiCache, and EMR depend on Graviton's unique features, high performance and lower overall cost to deliver products their customers love
- We benchmark and optimize internal and open source software; diagnose and fix operations issues to make sure we have available Graviton instances for customers, and we develop tools and services to measure performance
- As a software engineer in the team, you will have the opportunity to lead the innovation and deliver software that powers the world largest cloud provider
- The Graviton Software organization ports, optimizes, and develops software to drive down the cost of adoption and operation for the AWS Graviton instances
- We pro-actively improve and upstream open source software, including Linux kernel, operating system, compilers, libraries, and applications
- We help internal and external customers to troubleshoot and fix performance bottlenecks that prevent them from using Graviton
Our take
Amazon is the world's largest online retailer, and is well-known for its disruption of well-established industries. The company is present in numerous verticals, including cloud computing with Amazon Web Services, AI with its range of Alexa devices and a global marketplace more commonly referred to as 'the everything store'. Acquisitions include Ring, Twitch, Whole Foods Market, and IMDb.
More recently, Amazon has been focused on leading the "third wave in digital advertising". Many businesses are now shifting ad dollars to retailers, which before would have been spent with online media platforms. Amazon's seen great success in the space, with its revenue from advertising now higher than its Amazon Prime membership scheme, audiobooks and digital music combined. This growth is particularly impressive considering its digital ad rivals (like Snap, Alphabet, and Meta) have suffered declines due to wider macroeconomic factors and Apple's iOS privacy changes.
Despite its dominant market position, Amazon will continue to be challenged over the next decade, including sustaining AWS's cloud dominance in the face of Google and Microsoft. On top of this, the company's e-commerce division is facing profitability problems despite its 2023 post-IPO debt funding of 8 billion. It will need to find new ways to stay above their competitors.
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Insights
16% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Company HQ
South Lake Union, Seattle, WA
Leadership
Jeff Bezos
(Founder & Executive Chairman)Jeff is an American business magnate, media proprietor, and investor. As well as founding Amazon, Jeff founded Blue Origin, an aerospace manufacturer and sub-orbital spaceflight services company and also owns The Washington Post.
Andy Jassy
(President & CEO)Joined Amazon as a Marketing Manager in 1997. Developed AWS with Jeff Bezos, and became CEO of Amazon in 2021.
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