Software Engineer, Redshift Query Processing

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

Job summary

Amazon Development Center U.S., Inc. in East Palo Alto seeks talented software engineers for the Redshift query processing team. You will help design and implement SQL features, distributed data processing, and close integrations with other AWS services to support analysts and data scientists.

The role emphasizes performance optimization, cloud deployment, and mentoring peers in a fast-moving, collaborative environment within the industry-leading cloud company.

Qualifications

• 2+ years of non-internship professional software development experience.
• 2+ years of non-internship design or architecture experience (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems.
• 1+ years of designing and developing large-scale multi-tiered, distributed software applications, tools, systems, and services using C#, C++, Java or Perl.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement new SQL language features adding to Redshift functionalities.
• Design and implement state-of-the-art distributed data processing algorithms for the parallel execution engine.
• Work on integration between Redshift and other AWS services (data ingestion, federation, machine learning).
• Identify opportunities for performance improvement by analyzing query plans and execution states.
• Deploy and monitor new features in a cloud-based, highly available system.
• Mentor engineers and help grow the team.

Skills

C++

Java

C#

Perl

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or related field

Job description

Amazon Development Center U.S., Inc. in East Palo Alto seeks talented software engineers for the Redshift query processing team. You will help design and implement SQL features, distributed data processing, and close integrations with other AWS services to support analysts and data scientists.

The role emphasizes performance optimization, cloud deployment, and mentoring peers in a fast-moving, collaborative environment within the industry-leading cloud company.