Senior Redshift Data Warehouse Engineer (Flexible Hours)

Amazon; East Palo Alto (CA); On-site; USD 144,000 - 194,000; Full time

Job summary

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is hiring senior database engineers for its Redshift team. You’ll design, optimize and scale data warehouse solutions, collaborating with customers to tune architecture, SQL performance, and data workloads.

Join a fast-growing cloud platform, work on challenging analytics problems, and help shape the roadmap for scalable, customer-focused database technology in the cloud.

Qualifications

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

Responsibilities

• 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 scripting skills to automate tasks and improve workload analysis.

Job description

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is hiring senior database engineers for its Redshift team. You’ll design, optimize and scale data warehouse solutions, collaborating with customers to tune architecture, SQL performance, and data workloads.

Join a fast-growing cloud platform, work on challenging analytics problems, and help shape the roadmap for scalable, customer-focused database technology in the cloud.