Software Development Engineer II, Redshift Data Management

Job ID: 2838734 | Amazon Development Center U.S., Inc.

Amazon Redshift is looking for talented individuals with expertise and passion for building DBMS internals. We are interested in people who can conduct independent research and have a passion for software and system building, that is, smart people who get stuff done!

Key job responsibilities

  1. Own the design, implementation, and verification of components leveraging standard software engineering methodologies.
  2. Translate functional and technical requirements into detailed architecture and design.
  3. Participate in code and design reviews to maintain our high development standards.
  4. Work with other teams to deliver and operate large scale, distributed services in the cloud.
  5. Work on overall system architecture, scalability, reliability, and performance.
  6. Mentor other engineers, define our technical culture, and help to build a fast-growing team.

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:

  1. Build high-impact solutions to deliver to our large customer base.
  2. Participate in design discussions, code review, and communicate with internal and external stakeholders.
  3. Work cross-functionally to help drive business decisions with your technical input.
  4. Work in a startup-like development environment, where you’re always working on the most important stuff.

About the team

Amazon Redshift is a rapidly growing, fast and powerful, fully managed, petabyte-scale data warehouse service in the cloud. It enables customers to dramatically increase their query performance when analyzing virtually any size data set using the same SQL-based business intelligence tools they use today. Autonomics, Performance, Storage, Transaction Processing, and High Availability are some of the key areas of focus of the Data Management team.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

  1. 3+ years of non-internship professional software development experience.
  2. 2+ years of non-internship design or architecture (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience.
  3. Experience programming with at least one software programming language.
  4. Knowledge of professional software engineering & best practices for full software development life cycle, including coding standards, software architectures, code reviews, source control management, continuous deployments, testing, and operational excellence.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

  1. Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent.
  2. Strong background of building Distributed Systems using C++.
  3. Thorough understanding of concurrent programming.
  4. On disk data layout and File system knowledge is a plus.
  5. Understanding of commit protocol is a plus.
  6. Masters or PhD in Computer Science with focus on DBMS or Storage Systems is a plus.

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.

Posted: September 25, 2024 (Updated about 5 hours ago)

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