Sr. Software Dev Engineer, Redshift Distributed Systems

About the role

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 Redshift's storage, metadata, durability, and reliability guarantees — the cornerstone on which every query, every table, and every customer workload depends.

Responsibilities

• Innovate system architectures that address scalability, reliability, and performance for large-scale distributed systems
• Design and develop core storage, metadata, and catalog subsystems 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, in-memory caching, and catalog operations
• 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 team's ability to resolve complex customer-impacting issues

Requirements

• Databases, and Distributed Systems experience is mandatory; Storage and C++ experience is a plus.

Qualifications

• 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

Benefits

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