Sr. Software Development Engineer - Amazon Redshift, Query Processing
About the role
Amazon Redshift is one of the world's most popular fully managed cloud data warehouses. 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 a talented Senior Software Engineer in the Query Processing team of Redshift. Query processing is at the heart of Redshift data plane and is responsible for the massive parallel execution engine.
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
- Create metrics, implement automation and other improvements, and resolve the root cause of software defects
- Build high-impact solutions to deliver to our large customer base
- Participate in design discussions, code review, and communicate with internal and external stakeholders
- Work cross-functionally to help drive business decisions with your technical input
- Work in a startup-like development environment, where you're always working on the most important stuff
About the team
Amazon Redshift is a fully managed, AI powered, petabyte-scale cloud data warehouse service. Tens of thousands of customers today depend on Redshift to revolutionize their data analytics processes, providing vital insights for their businesses. Our team works on the execution engine of Amazon Redshift and our key areas of focus are high scalability, performance, and overall extend the capabilities of the execution engine. Redshift Query execution engine team develops best-in-class execution engine to cater to a variety of workloads. Engineers in this team come with distinguished expertise in various areas, such as - query execution, query optimization, high performance computing, computer architecture, compilers, distributed systems and data lake technologies. Our team consists of industry leading innovators, with multitudes of patents and research publications in this space. We are a fun-loving team, that is passionate about ideating, designing and delivering query processing and overall database architecture towards delivering industry leading price/performance.
Basic 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
- Experience with distributed computing and enterprise-wide systems
- Proficiency in at least one modern programming language like C++, Java, or Rust building and operating mission-critical, highly available systems
Preferred qualifications
- 5+ 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
- Requires strong coding skills with emphasis on logical thinking, data structures, algorithms, and problem-solving capabilities
- Experience with distributed (multi-tiered) systems architecture
- Experience performing live system and core analysis using GDB
Pay
USA, NY, New York - 184,900.00 - 250,200.00 USD annually. 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.
Benefits
- Health insurance including medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans
- Employee Assistance Program (EAP) and Mental Health Support
- Medical Advice Line and Flexible Spending Accounts
- Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage
- 401(k) matching
- Paid time off and parental leave