Software Development Engineer - Redshift Team Query Processing Team Amazon 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:
Query Processing team is at the heart of Redshift data plane and is responsible for query analysis query optimization and massively parallel engine. Query Processing team is focused on maintaining Amazon Redshifts lead on priceperformance.

Query Processing team delivers extreme performance over Redshift native and open table formats such as Iceberg by uniquely combining novel techniques including code generation superscalar query with optimized data encodings accessed with high performance SIMD kernels and hardware conscious algorithms coupled with high performant caching and IO subsystems. We also work closely with AWS platform teams in shaping requirements 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 and delivering query processing and overall database architecture towards extreme performance. We are distributed across many locations in US Germany and are expanding in other geographies.

AWS Redshift team is a part of Utility Computing (UC) team which provides product innovations from foundational services such as Amazons Simple Storage Service (S3 and Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2 to consistently released new product innovations that continue to set AWSs services and features apart in the industry. As a member of the UC organization youll support the development and management of Compute Database Storage Internet of Things (Iot) Platform and Productivity Apps services in AWS including support for customers who require specialized security solutions for their cloud services.



Key job responsibilities
We are actively hiring talented software engineers in the query team at Redshift. As a software engineer in the query team you will:

* Design and implement stateoftheart distributed data processing algorithms for the parallel query engine.
* Identify opportunities for performance improvement by indepth analysis of the query plan and query states.
* 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 fastgrowing team.

This is a unique and rare opportunity to get in on the ground floor within a fastgrowing 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
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Experience designing or architecting (design patterns reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems
Experience programming with at least one software programming language
At least 2 years of work experience in building and shipping production grade software system

Bachelors degree in computer science or equivalent
Experience with full software development life cycle including coding standards code reviews source control management build processes testing and operations

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