Sr. Software Development Engineer - Amazon Redshift, Redshift Query Processing

Amazon; New York (NY); On-site; USD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Mentorship programs

Career growth opportunities

Flexible working culture

Job summary

Amazon Redshift is hiring a Senior Software Engineer for the Query Processing team. You will own features across the query execution engine, drive architectural decisions and deliver end-to-end solutions for large-scale data workloads.

You will mentor engineers, participate in design discussions, and work in a fast-moving cloud environment. This role emphasizes impact across Fortune 500 and startup workloads.

Qualifications

• Strong software design and coding skills across scalable systems.
• Experience mentoring engineers and leading projects.
• Ability to collaborate with product, data, and exec stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Own design and implementation for core Redshift query processing features.
• Lead delivery from design through deployment, monitoring and operations.
• Mentor engineers and contribute to hiring and team growth.
• Partner cross-functionally to drive architectural decisions.

Skills

Systems design

Mentoring

Cross-functional coll.

Performance optimization

Job description

Amazon Redshift is one of 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.

We are actively hiring a talented Senior Software Engineer in the Query Processing team of Redshift. Query processing is at the heart of Redshift data plane and is responsible for the massive parallel execution engine.

Key job responsibilities

As a Senior Software Development Engineer in Redshift, you will build systems that benefit Redshift clusters across the world. You will take significant ownership on the overall product vision by defining new features and architecture. You will distill complex and ambiguous requirements, converting them into meaningful projects that provide immense customer value. You will own and code end-to-end deliverables from design, development, deployment, monitoring, and operations. You will lead engineers on substantial projects and help develop a flourishing team through active mentoring and hiring.

This is a unique and rare opportunity to get in on the ground floor within a fast-growing business and help shape the technology powering analytical workloads for Fortune 500 companies, startups, and everything in between. You will bring deep technical, algorithmic and coding expertise with the ability to work within a fast moving and collaborative environment in the industry leading cloud company to deliver a broad business impact.

A day in the life

As you design and code solutions to help our team drive efficiencies in software architecture, you’ll create metrics, implement automation and other improvements, and resolve the root cause of software defects.

You’ll also:

• 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.

About the team

Amazon Redshift is a fully managed, AI powered, petabyte-scale cloud data warehouse service. Tens of thousands of customers today depend on Redshift to revolutionize their data analytics processes, providing vital insights for their businesses. Our team works on the execution engine of Amazon Redshift and our key areas of focus are high scalability, performance, and overall extend the capabilities of the execution engine.

Redshift Query execution engine team develops best-in-class execution engine to cater to a variety of workloads. Engineers in this team come with distinguished expertise in various areas, such as - query execution, query optimization, high performance computing, computer architecture, compilers, distributed systems and data lake technologies. 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 and delivering query processing and overall database architecture towards delivering industry leading price/performance.

Diverse Experiences

AWS values diverse experiences. Even if you do not meet all of the qualifications and skills listed in the job description, we encourage candidates to apply. If your career is just starting, hasn’t followed a traditional path, or includes alternative experiences, don’t let it stop you from applying.

About AWS

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Inclusive Team Culture

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Work/Life Balance

We value work-life harmony. Achieving success at work should never come at the expense of sacrifices at home, which is why we strive for flexibility as part of our working culture. When we feel supported in the workplace and at home, there’s nothing we can’t achieve in the cloud.

Mentorship & Career Growth

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