2 days ago
Base Salary
$144k - $194k/yr
Responsibilities
- Analyze production service data to identify compiler, garbage collection, and runtime optimization opportunities.
- Design, implement, and benchmark improvements to JIT compilation, garbage collection, and core OpenJDK runtime subsystems and libraries.
- Contribute changes upstream to OpenJDK and to Amazon Corretto through code review and community processes.
- Tune runtime behavior for performance and efficiency across x86 and Graviton AArch64 architectures.
- Build profiling, observability, and auto-tuning tooling for fleet-wide runtime performance improvements.
- Share findings with the engineering community and help service teams adopt runtime improvements and newer JDK versions.
Requirements
- At least 3 years of non-internship professional software development experience.
- At least 2 years of non-internship design or architecture experience involving design patterns, reliability, and scaling.
- At least 1 year of software development engineer or related occupational experience.
- At least 1 year of designing and developing large-scale, multi-tiered, multi-threaded, embedded, or distributed applications, tools, systems, or services using C#, C++, Java, or Perl.
- At least 1 year of object-oriented design experience.
- Bachelor’s degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related field.
- Experience programming with at least one software programming language.
- Preferred: at least 3 years of full software development life cycle experience, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations.
- Preferred: bachelor’s degree in computer science or equivalent.
Benefits
- Comprehensive health benefits including medical, dental, vision, prescription, life and AD&D insurance, an employee assistance program, mental health support, a medical advice line, and flexible spending accounts.
- Adoption and surrogacy reimbursement coverage, 401(k) matching, paid time off, and parental leave.
- The package may also include sign-on payments and restricted stock units; final compensation depends on experience, qualifications, and location.
About Amazon
Amazon builds and operates a global e-commerce marketplace, logistics network, and consumer devices, and provides cloud computing via AWS for businesses and developers. The company earns revenue from online retail, third‑party seller services, subscriptions like Prime, advertising, and AWS usage. Founded in 1994 and headquartered in Seattle, it is publicly traded on NASDAQ (AMZN) and serves customers in dozens of countries.