Software Development Engineer, Redshift Data Warehouse

Amazon; East Palo Alto (CA); On-site; USD 165,200 - 223,600; Full time

Job summary

Amazon Redshift is a fully managed cloud data warehouse that enables analysts and data scientists to analyze exabytes of data at scale.

We are hiring a Software Development Engineer to design and implement SQL features, develop distributed execution algorithms, and integrate Redshift with other AWS services from our East Palo Alto location. You will mentor engineers and help grow the team.

Qualifications

• 2+ years of professional software development experience (non‑internship).
• 2+ years of design or architecture experience, including design patterns, reliability, and scalability of new and existing systems.
• 1+ year of designing and developing large‑scale, multi‑tiered, multi‑threaded, embedded or distributed software applications or services using C#, C++, Java, or Perl.
• Bachelor’s degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related field.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement new SQL language features that extend Redshift’s functionality for analysts, data engineers, and data scientists.
• Develop state‑of‑the‑art distributed data‑processing algorithms for the parallel execution engine.
• Integrate Redshift with other AWS services, including data ingestion, federation, machine learning, and more.
• Identify opportunities for performance improvement through in‑depth analysis of query plans and execution states.
• Deploy and monitor new features in a highly available, fault‑tolerant cloud environment.
• Mentor other engineers, providing technical guidance and helping to grow the team.

Skills

Software development

Design/architecture

Distributed systems

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/Engineering/Math

Tools

C#

C++

Java

Perl

Job description

Amazon Redshift is a fully managed cloud data warehouse that enables analysts and data scientists to analyze exabytes of data at scale.

We are hiring a Software Development Engineer to design and implement SQL features, develop distributed execution algorithms, and integrate Redshift with other AWS services from our East Palo Alto location. You will mentor engineers and help grow the team.