A day in the life
As a Senior SDE III on the Elastic Compute team at Annapurna Labs, you work where silicon meets software — your decisions ripple across millions of EC2 instances and shape the performance, security, and cost efficiency of the AWS compute platform. A day might start by root-causing a fleet-wide latency anomaly across the full stack, from the hypervisor and Nitro offload path down to firmware; move into owning the architecture for a multi-year initiative and leading the design review where the hard questions about scale, failure domains, and safe fleet-wide rollout get asked — often co-designed directly with silicon and hardware partners; and end deep in a low-level C/C++ or Rust change, a down-to-the-instruction performance investigation, or twenty minutes pairing with a newer engineer because raising the bar around you is part of the job, not a distraction from it. The systems you build run continuously, at massive scale, with little tolerance for error — so a great day ends with something shipped or a hard problem genuinely understood, knowing your work will be quietly running in data centers around the world tomorrow.
About the team
The organization you would be joining is Annapurna Labs, an integral part of AWS that develops hardware and software components that are critical building blocks for EC2 infrastructure. Every instance in EC2 is running some type of hardware designed by Annapurna Labs. We specialize in designing software, systems, and chips that optimize the AWS customer experience.
Diverse Experiences
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Work/Life Balance
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Mentorship & Career Growth
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8+ years of non-internship professional software development experience
8+ years of leading design or architecture (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
8+ years of full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations experience
3+ years as a mentor, tech lead or leading engineering teams
3+years experience in SW/HW Co-Design
Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent
Experience creating automated dashboards and visualization (such as Grafana)
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