Senior Software Engineer, Redshift Data Management

$151,300 - $261,500/Yr

Amazon.com - Redmond, WA

Full-time - Mid Level

Redmond, WA

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About the position

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 looking for an innovative engineer with passion to independently design and analyze complex system software and help shape the future of Redshift.

Responsibilities

• Translate functional and technical requirements into detailed architecture.
• Design, implement and deliver state-of-the-art distributed, high-performance data management processing algorithms and solutions.
• Deploy and monitor new features in a highly available and fault tolerant system running in the cloud.
• Collaborate with engineering teams and product managers to deliver and operate large scale, distributed services in the cloud.
• Participate in code and design reviews to maintain our high development standards.
• Mentor other engineers, define our technical culture, and help to build a fast-growing team.

Requirements

• 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

Nice-to-haves

• 5+ years of full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations experience
• Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent
• 5+ years experience programming large scale systems in C/C++.

Benefits

• Equity
• Sign-on payments
• Medical benefits
• Financial benefits