Software Development Engineer I 2025 Redshift

Amazon Redshift is the worlds 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 reinvent ourselves for customers. We are always looking for the innovative engineers to help shape the future of Redshift.

About the team

Distributed data management is at the heart of Amazon Redshift data analytics services and is responsible for delivering ultrafast and highly scalable performance. We are building and operating large scale distributed faulttolerant data and transaction management solutions using specialized data structures distributed consensus algorithms and many other advanced technologies. We are working with AWS platform teams in shaping requirements and solutions for next generation platforms to run database/analytics applications.

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

If you are interested to contribute to the next generation hyperscale data analytics services and architecture are curious and get things done we would like you to consider our team.


Key job responsibilities
Design implement and deliver stateoftheart distributed highperformance data and transaction management processing algorithms and solutions.
Deploy and monitor new features in a highly available and fault tolerant system running in the cloud.


Currently enrolled in or completed a Bachelors Degree or higher in Computer Science Computer Engineering or majors relating to these fields.
To qualify applicants should have earned a Bachelors degree or higher between October 2023 and Fall 2025 and/or graduated within the last 24 months.
Possible start dates for this role are between January 2025 and October 2025
Programming experience with at least one modern language such as Java C or C# including objectoriented design
Internship project or academic experience in at least one of the areas: internals kernel OS/storage systems job scheduling resource management file systems search or performance engineering

Pursuing Masters or PhD Degree with focus on Systems / Information Theory Databases Computer Science Computer Engineering or related
Strong knowledge of Computer Science fundamentals in objectoriented design data structures algorithm design problem solving and complexity analysis
Strong software development skills


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Los Angeles County applicants: Job duties for this position include: work safely and cooperatively with other employees supervisors and staff; adhere to standards of excellence despite stressful conditions; communicate effectively and respectfully with employees supervisors and staff to ensure exceptional customer service; and follow all federal state and local laws and Company policies. Criminal history may have a direct adverse and negative relationship with some of the material job duties of this position. These include the duties and responsibilities listed above as well as the abilities to adhere to company policies exercise sound judgment effectively manage stress and work safely and respectfully with others exhibit trustworthiness and professionalism and safeguard business operations and the Companys reputation. Pursuant to the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

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Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $99500/year in our lowest geographic market up to $200000/year in our highest geographic market. Pay is based on a number of factors including market location and may vary depending on jobrelated knowledge skills and experience. Amazon is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered equity signon payments and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package in addition to a full range of medical financial and/or other benefits. For more information please visit https://www.aboutamazon/workplace/employeebenefits. This position will remain posted until filled. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.