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Sr. Software Engineer, Query Optimization

Amazon Development Center U.S., Inc.
East Palo Alto, California, USA
$151.3K a year
Full-time

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.

We are actively hiring talented software engineers in the query optimization team of Redshift. The parallel-aware query optimizer of Redshift is at the heart of Redshift data plane and is responsible for finding optimal execution plans for tactical and complex queries running on the Redshift’s MPP 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.

We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations :

East Palo Alto, CA, USA

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

  • Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent
  • 8+ years of non-internship professional software development experience
  • 8+ years of programming with at least one software programming language experience
  • 5+ years of full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations experience
  • 4+ years of leading design or architecture (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
  • Experience as a mentor, tech lead or leading an engineering team

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

  • 4+ years of highly scalable systems experience
  • Experience building complex software systems that have been successfully delivered to customers
  • Experience leading and influencing your team or organization
  • Experience contributing to the architecture and design (architecture, design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and current systems
  • Experience managing teams
  • Master's or PhD degree in computer science or equivalent
  • 17 days ago
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