Sr. Software Development Engineer - Amazon Redshift, Query Processing

Amazon.com, Inc.•East Palo Alto, CA

51d

About The Position

Amazon Redshift is one of 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 the innovative engineers to help shape the future of Redshift. We are actively hiring a talented Senior Software Engineer in the Query Processing team of Redshift. Query processing is at the heart of Redshift data plane and is responsible for the massive parallel execution engine. As a Senior Software Development Engineer in Redshift, you will build systems that benefit Redshift clusters across the world. You will take significant ownership on the overall product vision by defining new features and architecture. You will distill complex and ambiguous requirements, converting them into meaningful projects that provide immense customer value. You will own and code end-to-end deliverables from design, development, deployment, monitoring, and operations. You will lead engineers on substantial projects and help develop a flourishing team through active mentoring and hiring. 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. As you design and code solutions to help our team drive efficiencies in software architecture, you'll create metrics, implement automation and other improvements, and resolve the root cause of software defects. You'll also: Build high-impact solutions to deliver to our large customer base. Participate in design discussions, code review, and communicate with internal and external stakeholders. Work cross-functionally to help drive business decisions with your technical input. Work in a startup-like development environment, where you're always working on the most important stuff. Amazon Redshift is a fully managed, AI powered, petabyte-scale cloud data warehouse service. Tens of thousands of customers today depend on Redshift to revolutionize their data analytics processes, providing vital insights for their businesses. Our team works on the execution engine of Amazon Redshift and our key areas of focus are high scalability, performance, and overall extend the capabilities of the execution engine.

Requirements

5+ years of non-internship professional software development experience
5+ years of programming with at least one software programming language experience
5+ years of leading design or architecture (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
Experience as a mentor, tech lead or leading an engineering team
4+ years of distributed systems experience, or Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, mathematics or equivalent
Experience with distributed computing and enterprise-wide systems
Proficiency in at least one modern programming language like Java, C++, Rust, or Python building and operating mission-critical, highly available systems

Nice To Haves

5+ years of full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations experience
Master's degree in computer science or equivalent
Master's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Data Science, Information Systems, or related STEM fields, or experience in writing algorithms and creating data structures
Experience with distributed systems at scale
Experience performing live system and core analysis using GDB

Responsibilities

Build systems that benefit Redshift clusters across the world.
Take significant ownership on the overall product vision by defining new features and architecture.
Distill complex and ambiguous requirements, converting them into meaningful projects that provide immense customer value.
Own and code end-to-end deliverables from design, development, deployment, monitoring, and operations.
Lead engineers on substantial projects and help develop a flourishing team through active mentoring and hiring.
Design and code solutions to help our team drive efficiencies in software architecture
Create metrics, implement automation and other improvements, and resolve the root cause of software defects.
Build high-impact solutions to deliver to our large customer base.
Participate in design discussions, code review, and communicate with internal and external stakeholders.
Work cross-functionally to help drive business decisions with your technical input.
Work in a startup-like development environment, where you're always working on the most important stuff.