Software Development Engineer I 2025, Redshift

Amazon; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 80,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a forward-thinking team at the forefront of cloud data analytics! As a Software Development Engineer I at Amazon Redshift, you will contribute to the design and implementation of cutting-edge distributed data management solutions. This role offers the opportunity to work with advanced technologies and collaborate with industry-leading innovators. You will be responsible for delivering high-performance algorithms and ensuring the reliability of cloud systems. If you are passionate about data analytics and eager to make an impact in a dynamic environment, this is the perfect opportunity for you to grow your career and shape the future of data management services.

Qualifications

• Strong software development skills and knowledge of computer science fundamentals.
• Experience with modern programming languages and systems engineering.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement high-performance data management algorithms.
• Deploy and monitor features in a fault-tolerant cloud system.

Skills

Java

C++

C#

Object-oriented design

Problem solving

Complexity analysis

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science

Master's or PhD in Systems / Information Theory

Job description

Software Development Engineer I 2025, Redshift

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.

About the team
Distributed data management is at the heart of Amazon Redshift data analytics services and is responsible for delivering ultra-fast and highly scalable performance. We are building and operating large scale, distributed, fault-tolerant data and transaction management solutions using specialized data structures, distributed consensus algorithms and many other advanced technologies. We are working with AWS platform teams in shaping requirements and solutions for next generation platforms to run database/analytics applications.

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, delivering and operating data analytics services to delight customers with extreme performance and scalability. We are distributed across many locations in US, Germany, and are expanding in other geographies.

If you are interested to contribute to the next generation hyper-scale data analytics services and architecture, are curious and get things done, we would like you to consider our team.

Key job responsibilities
• Design, implement and deliver state-of-the-art distributed, high-performance data and transaction management processing algorithms and solutions.
• Deploy and monitor new features in a highly available and fault tolerant system running in the cloud.

Minimum Qualifications
• Currently enrolled in or completed a Bachelors Degree or higher in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or majors relating to these fields.
• To qualify, applicants should have earned a Bachelors degree or higher between October 2023 and Fall 2025 and/or graduated within the last 24 months.
• Possible start dates for this role are between January 2025 and October 2025.
• Programming experience with at least one modern language such as Java, C++, or C# including object-oriented design.
• Internship, project, or academic experience in at least one of the areas: internals, kernel, OS/storage systems, job scheduling, resource management, file systems, search, or performance engineering.
• Pursuing a Masters or PhD Degree with focus on Systems / Information Theory, Databases, Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or related.
• Strong knowledge of Computer Science fundamentals in object-oriented design, data structures, algorithm design, problem solving, and complexity analysis.
• Strong software development skills.

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