Software Development Engineer - Query Processing, DBS Redshift

We are searching for Software Development Engineers with passion for building easy to use large-scale enterprise cloud software optimized for massive query execution. If you are motivated by the fact that your code helps thousands of the world biggest companies to run millions of SQL queries smoothly and with high performance through our distributed cloud system this role is for you!

Our cloud data warehouse Amazon Redshift manages all the work needed to set up operate and scale a data warehouse from provisioning capacity and installing software to monitoring and backing up the cluster to applying patches and upgrades. With Redshift Spectrum our customers can easily query data from Amazon S3 thereby scaling their warehouse out to Exabytes and allowing them to integrate data in all kinds of file formats from their data lake into their analytics.

Joining the Amazon Redshift SQL Query Processing team gives you the opportunity to:
* Work on the latest technology as we constantly build the latest research concepts into Redshift.
* Be part of something big as you are working on a key pillar of AWSs extensive service portfolio and thousands of Amazon Redshift customers benefit from your contributions.
* Learn from the best as you are working on challenging engineering tasks in a team of very experienced experts that are close to support you.
* Be part of a great team as we invest a lot to create an inclusive environment that allows you to perform at your best while maintaining a fun atmosphere.

Utility Computing (UC)
AWS Utility Computing (UC) 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. Within AWS UC Amazon Dedicated Cloud (ADC) roles engage with AWS customers who require specialized security solutions for their cloud services.

Key job responsibilities
* Participate in the design and development of state-of-the-art SQL query processing engines
* Define query rewrite rules and optimize query execution time in distributed databases.
* Participate in code and design reviews to maintain our high development standards.
* Operate a large-scale distributed service in the cloud.

About the team
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- Experience (non-internship) in professional software development
- Experience designing or architecting (design patterns reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems
- Experience programming with at least one software programming language

- Masters 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
- Experience building complex software systems that have been successfully delivered to customers

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