Sr. Software Development Engineer Amazon Redshift, Query Processing

Amazon Redshift is one of 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 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.


Key job responsibilities
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.


A day in the life
As you design and code solutions to help our team drive efficiencies in software architecture youll create metrics implement automation and other improvements and resolve the root cause of software defects.

Youll 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 youre always working on the most important stuff.


About the team
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.

Redshift Query execution engine team develops best-in-class execution engine to cater to a variety of workloads. Engineers in this team come with distinguished expertise in various areas such as - query execution query optimization high performance computing computer architecture compilers distributed systems and data lake technologies. Our team consists of industry leading innovators with multitudes of patents and research publications in this space. We are a fun-loving team that is passionate about ideating designing and delivering query processing and overall database architecture towards delivering industry leading price/performance.

Diverse Experiences
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Mentorship & Career Growth
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- 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
- Experience with distributed computing and enterprise-wide systems Proficiency in at least one modern programming language like C Java or Rust building and operating mission-critical highly available systems

- 5 years of full software development life cycle including coding standards code reviews source control management build processes testing and operations experience
- Masters degree in computer science or equivalent
- Requires strong coding skills with emphasis on logical thinking data structures algorithms and problem-solving capabilities.
- Experience with distributed (multi-tiered) systems architecture
- Experience performing live system and core analysis using GDB

Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status disability or other legally protected status.

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 $151300/year in our lowest geographic market up to $261500/year in our highest geographic market. Pay is based on a number of factors including market location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge skills and experience. Amazon is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered equity sign-on 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 This position will remain posted until filled. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.