Software Development Engineer, Amazon Redshift Query Optimizer
About the role
Amazon Redshift is the world's 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 talented software engineers in the query optimization team of Redshift. The parallel-aware query optimizer of Redshift is at the heart of Redshift data plane and is responsible for finding optimal execution plans for tactical and complex queries running on the Redshift's MPP engine. 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.
Key job responsibilities
- Build systems that benefit Redshift clusters across the world
- Take significant ownership on the overall product vision by defining new features and architecture
- Distill complex and ambiguous requirements, converting them into meaningful projects that provide immense customer value
- Own and code end-to-end deliverables from design, development, deployment, monitoring, and operations
- Lead engineers on substantial projects and help develop a flourishing team through active mentoring and hiring
Basic qualifications
- 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
- Bachelor's degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related field
- Experience programming with at least one software programming language
Preferred qualifications
- 3+ years of full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations experience
- Master's degree in computer science or equivalent
Pay
Base salary range: $165,200.00 - $223,600.00 USD annually (USA, CA, East Palo Alto). Final compensation determined based on factors including experience, qualifications, and location. Your package will also include sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs).
Benefits
- Health insurance including medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans
- Employee Assistance Program (EAP), Mental Health Support, Medical Advice Line
- Flexible Spending Accounts
- Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage
- 401(k) matching
- Paid time off
- Parental leave