Software Dev Engineer, Redshift Distributed Systems, AWS Redshift

Are you interested in building next-generation hyper-scale distributed systems in the cloud Amazon Redshift is a rapidly growing fast and fully managed petabyte-scale data warehouse service in the cloud. Tens of thousands of customers rely on Redshift to analyze exabytes of data every day to power their most critical analytics workloads.

Join the Amazon Redshift Data Foundation team to solve some of the most challenging problems in petabyte-scale distributed data systems. Our team owns the critical foundation that underpins Redshifts storage metadata durability and reliability guarantees the cornerstone on which every query every table and every customer workload depends. You will dive deep into complex interactions within the Redshift engine tackling large-scale high-complexity problems that span data storage architecture durability mechanisms and performance optimization at massive scale. Were looking for an engineer with a strong understanding of distributed systems storage internals and the curiosity to ask the right questions as we build a best-in-class cloud analytics database engine. You will design and deliver features that keep Redshift at the forefront of cloud analytics ensuring data is always safe always accessible and always fast.

Key job responsibilities
- Innovate architecture that address scalability reliability and performance for large-scale distributed systems
- Design and develop core storage and metadata that operate reliably at petabyte scale
- Solve large-scale high-complexity problems spanning data durability availability consistency and performance
- Debug deep cross-cutting issues that require understanding the full stack from query planning to distributed storage to on-disk data formats
- Drive performance improvements in storage I/O paths metadata access patterns and in-memory caching
- Improve reliability and durability guarantees through resilient system design automated recovery and defensive engineering
- Mentor and grow junior engineers through design reviews code reviews and technical guidance
- Raise the bar on operational excellence by building deep observability reducing operational toil and strengthening the teams ability to resolve complex customer-impacting issues

About the team
About the team

Our team owns the foundational data systems that keep Amazon Redshift running reliably and performantly at petabyte scale. We build and maintain the critical storage metadata and catalog infrastructure that manages every table schema permission and byte of customer data across the fleet. Our work spans storage architecture and data organization in-memory scaling and caching data durability and recovery mechanisms and multi-warehouse metadata consistency. We tackle large-scale high-complexity problems that sit at the intersection of distributed systems database internals and cloud infrastructure. We value operational excellence: automating away toil building deep observability and resolving complex customer issues.

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- 2 years of non-internship professional software development experience
- 1 years of software development engineer or related occupational experience
- 1 years of designing and developing large-scale multi-tiered multi-threaded embedded or distributed software applications tools systems and services using: C# C Java or Perl experience
- 1 years of Object Oriented Design experience
- Bachelors degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science Engineering Mathematics or a related field
- Experience programming with at least one software programming language

- 3 years of full software development life cycle including coding standards code reviews source control management build processes testing and operations experience
- Bachelors degree in computer science or equivalent

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The base salary range for this position is listed below. Your Amazon package will include sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience qualifications and location. Amazon also offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance (medical dental vision prescription Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans EAP Mental Health Support Medical Advice Line Flexible Spending Accounts Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage) 401(k) matching paid time off and parental leave. Learn more about our benefits at CA East Palo Alto - 165200.00 - 223600.00 USD annually