SDE Full-time , 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 re-
invent ourselves for customers. We are always looking for innovative engineers to help shape the future of Redshift.

We are actively hiring talented software engineers in the storage team of Redshift. The storage layer is the foundation of Redshifts distributed data
warehouse architecture responsible for managing data durability availability storage elasticity and high-throughput operations at scale.

Key job responsibilities
As a Software Engineer on the storage team you will:

- Design and implement distributed storage systems that power Redshifts massively parallel data warehouse architecture.
- Build and optimize storage layer operations to deliver consistent high-performance reads and writes at petabyte scale.
- Design storage elasticity solutions that enable clusters to seamlessly scale storage capacity based on workload demands.
- Design and operate large-scale distributed systems with a focus on durability fault tolerance and availability.
- Identify opportunities for performance improvement through in-depth analysis of storage access patterns and data layouts.
- Work on integration between Redshift storage and other AWS services in the AWS ecosystem including data ingestion backup replication and disaster recovery.
- 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 fast-growing team.

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 systems design 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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- 3 years of non-internship professional software development experience
- 2 years of non-internship design or architecture (design patterns reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems 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

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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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