Software Dev Engineer, Redshift Catalog Service
About The Position
Join the Amazon Redshift Catalog and Data Governance team, solving some of the most challenging problems in petabyte-scale distributed database systems. You will work deep in the Redshift engine's catalog and data governance layer, delivering customer facing features like fine-grained access control, enabling scaling through multi-warehouse, while making the core catalog scale to higher throughputs and concurrency. We're looking for an engineer with strong C/C++ skills, a solid understanding of database internals and distributed systems, and the drive to debug complex issues across a large codebase. You will design and build features that keep Redshift at the forefront of secure, governed cloud analytics. Our team owns the foundational catalog systems that keep Amazon Redshift running at petabyte scale. We build and maintain the metadata layer that manages every table, schema, and permission across the fleet. Our work spans catalog performance optimization, in-memory scaling and caching, multi-warehouse metadata consistency. We value operational excellence: automating away toil, building deep observability, and resolving complex customer issues that require understanding the full stack from query planning to distributed storage.
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 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
Responsibilities
- Design and development of distributed system features of Redshift
- Debugging hard problems
- Improving performance and availability
- Mentoring and growing junior engineers
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
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
