Amazon
Software Development Engineer, Amazon Java Runtime
$168K–$227K
Seattle, WA · Full-time · Posted Sep 23, 2026
- Experience
- 5+ years in each of the three basic experience areas listed; preferred full software development life cycle experience is 5+ years.
- Education
- Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent (preferred).
About the job
Develop and optimize Amazon’s Java runtime by analyzing production workloads, improving JVM components, and building tools for fleet-wide performance gains.
What you'll do
- Profile production JVM workloads and optimize JIT compilation, garbage collection, and runtime subsystems across x86 and Graviton (AArch64).
- Contribute runtime changes to OpenJDK and Amazon Corretto, and build profiling, observability, and auto-tuning tools.
- Benchmark and validate changes, then partner with service teams to drive adoption of runtime improvements and newer JDK versions.
What they ask for
- 5+ years of non-internship professional software development experience.
- 5+ years programming with at least one software programming language.
- 5+ years leading design or architecture of new and existing systems, including design patterns, reliability, and scaling.
- Experience as a mentor, tech lead, or engineering team leader.
Nice to have
- Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent; knowledge of ARM CPUs.
- Experience with production language runtimes, garbage collection algorithms, compiler optimization, or upstream open-source contributions.
Pay
168,100.00 - 227,400.00 USD annually (base salary)
Tools
Java, JVM, OpenJDK, Amazon Corretto, x86, Graviton (AArch64), G1, ZGC
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