Senior Software Engineer, Query Processing Team, Amazon Redshift.

Amazon Redshift is one of the world’s most popular fully managed cloud data warehouses. 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 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.

• As a Senior Software Development Engineer in Redshift, you will build systems that benefit Redshift clusters across the world.
• You will take significant ownership of 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.

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 extending the capabilities of the execution engine.

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• Experience as a mentor, tech lead or leading an engineering team.
• Experience leading the architecture and design (architecture, design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and current systems.
• Experience in professional, non-internship software development.
• Experience programming with at least one modern language such as Java, C++, or C# including object-oriented design.
• Experience in development in the last 3 years.

• Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent.
• Experience with full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations.

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