Staff Devops Engineer - Compiler Infrastructure

AMD AMD · Semiconductors · Austin, TX · Engineering

Staff DevOps Engineer for Compiler Infrastructure at AMD, focusing on CI/CD pipelines, validation, benchmarking, infrastructure deployment, cross-architecture testing, and build optimization for LLVM-based toolchains.

What you'd actually do

  1. Design and maintain high-performance pipelines (e.g., Jenkins, GitHub Actions, or Buildbot) tailored for the iterative nature of compiler development. Focus on enhancing reliability and efficiency by automating routine tasks and integrating robust testing mechanisms.
  2. Develop automated systems to track and visualize performance metrics such as execution speed, binary size, and memory usage, ensuring these metrics are well-documented and accessible. Use this data to prevent performance regressions.
  3. Work with alternative tools like Docker, Kubernetes, or native cloud solutions to provision and manage scalable build farms across hybrid-cloud and on-premise environments. Focus on seamless integration and automation rather than specific IaC frameworks.
  4. Manage "bare metal" and virtualized testing environments for diverse Instruction Set Architectures (ISAs), ensuring compiler correctness and interoperability across various hardware targets.
  5. Collaborate closely with compiler developers to optimize build systems (e.g., CMake, Ninja) to minimize the "developer-to-feedback" loop times, leveraging your expertise in automation and parallelization.

Skills

Required

  • Linux/Unix internals
  • shell scripting (Bash)
  • Python for automation
  • CI/CD expertise
  • Docker containerization
  • diagnose and resolve low-level system issues
  • linker errors
  • environment-specific discrepancies

Nice to have

  • reading knowledge of C/C++
  • contributing to or managing builds for open-source projects
  • LLVM