Sr. Software Development Engineer - Amazon Redshift, Query Processing

About the role

Amazon Redshift is a fully managed, AI-powered, petabyte-scale cloud data warehouse service. Tens of thousands of customers rely on Redshift to revolutionize their data analytics processes, providing vital insights for their businesses. We are actively hiring a talented Senior Software Engineer in the Query Processing team of Redshift.

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 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.

Requirements

• 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 Java, C++, Rust, or Python building and operating mission-critical, highly available systems

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent
• 5+ years of full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations experience
• Experience with distributed (multi-tiered) systems architecture
• Experience performing live system and core analysis using GDB

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with distributed (multi-tiered) systems architecture
• Experience performing live system and core analysis using GDB

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.