Database Engineer, Amazon Redshift

About the role

Joining the Amazon Redshift team gives you the opportunity to:

• Work on a disruptive product that’s still in its early stages
• Solve challenging problems that will revolutionize database computing in the cloud
• Build a product that will leverage the scale of resources available in the cloud
• Work for a company that’s a recognized leader in the cloud computing space
• Be involved in the fast growing, big data space

Responsibilities

We are looking for senior database engineers that are passionate about data warehousing, and love to work with customers to help them with database design, usage patterns and performance.

We expect candidates to be able to:

• Demonstrate in-depth knowledge of database or data warehouse systems internals including relational database design and distributed databases/MPP architectures
• Lead strategic data architecture & database design discussions with customers
• Drive and oversee workload analysis, performance benchmarking and troubleshooting efforts with customers in their environments
• Clearly communicate deep technical topics to customers
• Influence the engineering team roadmap towards building a product that is scalable, easy to use and build on, and addresses customer needs
• Conduct POC’s with customers in competitive situations
• Leverage good coding/scripting skills to automate tasks and improve workload analysis mechanisms

Requirements

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, a related technical field or equivalent
• 5+ years of non-internship professional software development experience
• Experience in writing complex, highly-optimized SQL queries across large datasets
• Knowledge of overall system architecture, scalability, reliability, and performance in a database environment
• Experience with large-scale data analytics and data warehousing

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience in software development, or experience that includes strong analytical skills, attention to detail, and effective communication abilities
• Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, mathematics or equivalent, or experience in external enterprise customer-facing role as a technical lead, with strong oral and written communication skills, presenting to both large and small audiences

Qualifications

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, a related technical field or equivalent
• 5+ years of non-internship professional software development experience
• Experience in writing complex, highly-optimized SQL queries across large datasets
• Knowledge of overall system architecture, scalability, reliability, and performance in a database environment
• Experience with large-scale data analytics and data warehousing

Skills

Basic Qualifications:

• Strong analytical skills
• Attention to detail
• Effective communication abilities

Benefits

Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience, qualifications, and location. Amazon also offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance, 401(k) matching, paid time off, and parental leave. Learn more about our benefits at https://amazon.jobs/en/benefits.