SDE - Full-time , Amazon Redshift

Amazon • East Palo Alto, CA

1d • Onsite

About The Position

Amazon Redshift is the world's most popular fully managed cloud data warehouse. Tens of thousands of enterprise customers use Redshift to crunch through exabytes of data in the cloud 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 customers. We are always looking for innovative engineers to help shape the future of Redshift. We are actively hiring talented software engineers in the storage team of Redshift. The storage layer is the foundation of Redshift's distributed data warehouse architecture, responsible for managing data durability, availability, storage elasticity, and high-throughput operations at scale. 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, systems design, 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.

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 and implement distributed storage systems that power Redshift's massively parallel data warehouse architecture.
• Build and optimize storage layer operations to deliver consistent, high-performance reads and writes at petabyte scale.
• Design storage elasticity solutions that enable clusters to seamlessly scale storage capacity based on workload demands.
• Design and operate large-scale distributed systems with a focus on durability, fault tolerance, and availability.
• Identify opportunities for performance improvement through in-depth analysis of storage access patterns and data layouts.
• Work on integration between Redshift storage and other AWS services in the AWS ecosystem, including data ingestion, backup, replication, and disaster recovery.
• Deploy and monitor new features in a highly available and fault tolerant system running in the cloud.
• 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: Entry Level