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Principal Enterprise & Database Competitive Performance Engineer

AMD· Engineering
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Austin, TX$204kFull-timePosted 4w ago

About the role

End-to-end performance engineer focused on enterprise and database workloads to characterize AMD EPYC versus Intel Xeon (and Arm as applicable) through deployment, tuning, profiling, root-cause analysis, and reproducible methodology, with clear communication of mechanisms driving outcomes and potential mitigations.

Responsibilities

  • Define and maintain an enterprise workload taxonomy spanning relational databases, Java, analytics, virtualization, consolidation and other priority server applications.
  • Develop rigorous methods for throughput, latency, tail latency, scale-up and scale-out behavior, consolidation and service-level objectives.
  • Analyze AMD versus Intel performance with attention to core configuration, frequency and power behavior, acceleration features, memory capacity and bandwidth, and platform setup.
  • Evaluate compiler, JVM, database, kernel and library tuning so comparisons reflect realistic deployment choices rather than accidental configuration gaps.
  • Use profiling and counters to explain CPU stalls, memory behavior, locks and contention, NUMA placement, storage or network dependencies and software bottlenecks.
  • Measure performance-per-watt, consolidation and platform or rack TCO drivers where licensing and density matter.
  • Translate bottleneck evidence into future architecture and performance assumptions with the architecture and forecasting teams.
  • Maintain configuration manifests, runbooks and methodology control so results can withstand peer, partner and customer scrutiny.
  • Create deep-dive technical reports and concise executive content showing AMD lead areas, risk areas and possible mitigations.
  • Support fast post-launch analysis and use measured results to improve future forecasts.

Qualifications

  • Extensive hands-on performance engineering experience with enterprise or server applications at scale.
  • Experience with relational or distributed databases, Java or JVM performance, analytics engines, virtualization or hypervisors.
  • Demonstrated ability to tune full software stacks and distinguish CPU limitations from storage, network, runtime and configuration artifacts.
  • Strong Linux and system-administration skills, including scripting and repeatable environment setup.
  • Experience with profiling tools, hardware performance counters, NUMA analysis and system-level tuning.
  • Strong understanding of throughput, latency, scaling, saturation, consolidation and service-level metrics.
  • Clear technical writing and presentation skills, with high standards for benchmark fairness, documentation and reproducibility.
  • Hands-on experience with both Intel Xeon and AMD EPYC enterprise platforms.
  • Experience with Oracle, SQL Server, PostgreSQL, MySQL, SAP, Java application servers, analytics platforms or major virtualization stacks.
  • Knowledge of software licensing and TCO dynamics that interact with CPU performance and consolidation.
  • Experience with industry benchmark suites or customer, OEM or ISV performance labs.
  • Cross-ISA enterprise workload experience on Arm.

Skills

Required:Enterprise workload tuningProfiling and performance analysisLinux administration

Benefits

  • Benefits offered are described in AMD benefits at a glance.
Last updated Oct 15, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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