Description

Join us at Redshift Distributed systems team to solve most challenging problems that come with petabyte scale system! You will be diving deep into the complex interactions between AWS Redshift and other AWS core services and improving availability and debuggability and performance of the system. We need an engineer with good understanding of the distributed systems and ability to ask the right questions to build best in class analytics database engine that is highly efficient and easy to use. You will be working on new features that make Redshift innovative and competitive analytics engine.

Key job responsibilities

You will be responsible for design and development of distributed system features of Redshift, debugging hard problems, improving performance and availability, mentoring and growing junior engineers.

About the team

Our team is in charge of Redshift as a system. We make sure that it's reliable maintainable and easily observable. We put lots of emphasis into automating away operational tasks and focusing on efficiency, reliability and simplicity of the system. We create integrations between Redshift and other services, we are in charge of network communication, high availability features, serverless pause/resume, transparent failover, network communication and cluster membership. We create internal tools that make service team life better and run internal quality monitoring service

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

East Palo Alto, CA, USA

Basic Qualifications

• 5+ years of non-internship professional software development experience

• 5+ years of programming with at least one software programming language experience

• 5+ 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

• 5+ years of programming using a modern programming language such as Java, C++, or C#, including object-oriented design experience

Preferred Qualifications

• 7+ years of full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations experience

• Master's degree in computer science or equivalent

• 4+ years of highly scalable systems experience

Amazon is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status. For individuals with disabilities who would like to request an accommodation, please visit https://www.amazon.jobs/en/disability/us.

Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $134,500/year in our lowest geographic market up to $261,500/year in our highest geographic market. Pay is based on a number of factors including market location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Amazon is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered, equity, sign-on payments, and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package, in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits. For more information, please visit https://www.aboutamazon.com/workplace/employee-benefits. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.