SDE Redshift Data Management, Redshift Data Foundations

Amazon • East Palo Alto, CA

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About The Position

We are looking for SDE talent in Bay Area (Palo Alto).

Are you eager to work on a product that allows customers to crunch through
exabytes of data in the cloud per day to make business critical decisions?
Amazon Redshift is the world’s most popular fully managed petabyte-scale data
analytic service in the cloud. Tens of thousands of customers use Redshift to
crunch through exabytes of data to make business critical decisions every day.
To stay ahead in such a mission critical setting, at Redshift, we must always
re-invent ourselves for our customers. We are looking for the innovative
engineers to help shape the future of Redshift.

Distributed data and transaction management is at the heart of Amazon Redshift
data analytics services and is responsible for delivering ultra-fast, highly
scalable and cost-effective performance. We are building and operating large
scale, distributed, fault-tolerant data and transaction management solutions
using specialized data structures, distributed consensus algorithms, machine
learning, massive parallel execution and many other advanced technologies.
Redshift seamlessly scales across multiple AWS availability zones and regions
across the globe.

We are working across AWS in shaping requirements and solutions for next
generation data analytics platforms and services.

Our team consists of industry leading innovators, with multitudes of patents and
research publications in this space. We are a fun-loving team, that is
passionate about ideating, designing, delivering and operating data analytics
services to delight customers with performance and scalability. We are
distributed across many locations in US, Germany, Canada and are expanding in
other geographies.

If you are interested to contribute to the next generation hyper-scale data
analytics services and architecture, are curious and get things done, we would
like you to consider our team. You will have the opportunity and responsibility
to:

- Design, implement and deliver state-of-the-art distributed, high-performance
data and transaction management processing algorithms and solutions
- Continuously invent and re-architect components and workflows creating new
technologies to meet the future demands in data analytics
- Deploy and monitor new features in a highly available and fault tolerant
system running in the cloud
- Collaborate with and mentor other engineers, providing technical guidance and
helping to build a fast-growing team

This is a unique and rare opportunity to get in on the ground floor within a
fast-growing business and help shape the technology powering analytical
workloads for Fortune 500 companies, startups, and everything in between. You
will bring deep technical, algorithmic and coding expertise with the ability to
work within a fast moving and collaborative environment in the industry leading
cloud company to deliver a broad business impact.

About the team
AWS values diverse experiences. Even if you do not meet all of the preferred
qualifications and skills listed in the job description, we encourage candidates
to apply. If your career is just starting, hasn’t followed a traditional path,
or includes alternative experiences, don’t let it stop you from applying.

Why AWS? Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the world’s most comprehensive and broadly
adopted cloud platform. We pioneered cloud computing and never stopped
innovating — that’s why customers from the most successful startups to Global
500 companies trust our robust suite of products and services to power their
businesses.

Inclusive Team Culture Here at AWS, it’s in our nature to learn and be curious.
Our employee-led affinity groups foster a culture of inclusion that empower us
to be proud of our differences. Ongoing events and learning experiences,
including our Conversations on Race and Ethnicity (CORE) and AmazeCon
conferences, inspire us to never stop embracing our uniqueness.

Mentorship & Career Growth We’re continuously raising our performance bar as we
strive to become Earth’s Best Employer. That’s why you’ll find endless
knowledge-sharing, mentorship and other career-advancing resources here to help
you develop into a better-rounded professional.

Work/Life Balance We value work-life harmony. Achieving success at work should
never come at the expense of sacrifices at home, which is why we strive for
flexibility as part of our working culture. When we feel supported in the
workplace and at home, there’s nothing we can’t achieve in the cloud.

Requirements

• 3+ years of non-internship professional software development experience
• 2+ years of non-internship design or architecture (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
• 1+ years of software development engineer or related occupational experience
• 1+ years of designing and developing large-scale, multi-tiered, multi-threaded, embedded or distributed software applications, tools, systems, and services using: C#, C++, Java, or Perl experience
• 1+ years of Object Oriented Design experience
• Bachelor's degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related field
• Experience programming with at least one software programming language

Nice To Haves

• 3+ years of full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations experience
• Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent

Responsibilities

• Design, implement and deliver state-of-the-art distributed, high-performance data and transaction management processing algorithms and solutions
• Continuously invent and re-architect components and workflows creating new technologies to meet the future demands in data analytics
• Deploy and monitor new features in a highly available and fault tolerant system running in the cloud
• Collaborate with and mentor other engineers, providing technical guidance and helping to build a fast-growing team

Benefits

• health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans, EAP, Mental Health Support, Medical Advice Line, Flexible Spending Accounts, Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage)
• 401(k) matching
• paid time off
• parental leave

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level