2 months ago
Base Salary
$168k - $227k/yr
Responsibilities
- Analyze production JVM workloads to identify compiler, garbage-collection, and runtime bottlenecks and translate findings into optimizations.
- Design, implement, and benchmark improvements to JIT compilation, garbage collection, and core runtime subsystems.
- Contribute changes to OpenJDK and Amazon Corretto through code review and community processes.
- Tune runtime behavior across x86 and Graviton AArch64 architectures.
- Build profiling, observability, and auto-tuning tooling for fleet-wide runtime optimization.
- Validate performance and reliability against real workloads before broad rollout.
- Partner with service teams to drive adoption of runtime improvements and newer JDK versions.
Requirements
- At least 5 years of non-internship professional software development experience.
- At least 5 years of programming experience with at least one software programming language.
- At least 5 years of leading design or architecture for new and existing systems, including design patterns, reliability, and scaling.
- Experience as a mentor, tech lead, or engineering team lead.
- Preferred: at least 5 years of full software development lifecycle experience, including coding standards, code reviews, source control, build processes, testing, and operations.
- Preferred: bachelor’s degree in computer science or equivalent.
- Preferred: knowledge of ARM CPUs and experience with OpenJDK, HotSpot JVM, or another production language runtime.
- Preferred: depth in garbage-collection algorithms and compiler backend or optimization experience.
- Preferred: upstream open-source contributions or published performance work.
Benefits
- Comprehensive health insurance including medical, dental, vision, prescription, life, AD&D, and supplemental life options.
- Employee assistance, mental health support, medical advice line, flexible spending accounts, and adoption and surrogacy reimbursement coverage.
- 401(k) matching, paid time off, and parental leave.
- Compensation includes sign-on payments and restricted stock units in addition to base salary.
- The position is located in Seattle, Washington, USA.
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.