Full-Time

Software Development Engineer

Amazon Redshift

Amazon

Amazon

10,001+ employees

Global online marketplace and cloud services

Compensation Overview

$165.2k - $223.6k/yr

+ Sign-on payments + RSUs

Company Historically Provides H1B Sponsorship

Palo Alto, CA, USA

In Person

Category
Software Engineering (1)
Required Skills
Redshift
Java
C#
AWS
Perl
C/C++
Requirements
  • 3+ years of non-internship professional software development experience
  • 2+ years of non-internship design or architecture (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
  • 1+ years of software development engineer or related occupational experience
  • 1+ years of designing and developing large-scale, multi-tiered, multi-threaded, embedded or distributed software applications, tools, systems, and services using: C#, C++, Java, or Perl experience
  • 1+ years of Object Oriented Design experience
  • Bachelor's degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related field
  • Experience programming with at least one software programming language
Responsibilities
  • Design and implement distributed storage systems that power Redshift's massively parallel data warehouse architecture.
  • Build and optimize storage layer operations to deliver consistent, high-performance reads and writes at petabyte scale.
  • Design storage elasticity solutions that enable clusters to seamlessly scale storage capacity based on workload demands.
  • Design and operate large-scale distributed systems with a focus on durability, fault tolerance, and availability.
  • Identify opportunities for performance improvement through in-depth analysis of storage access patterns and data layouts.
  • Work on integration between Redshift storage and other AWS services in the AWS ecosystem, including data ingestion, backup, replication, and disaster recovery.
  • Deploy and monitor new features in a highly available and fault tolerant system running in the cloud.
  • Mentor other engineers, providing technical guidance and helping to build a fast-growing team.
Desired Qualifications
  • 3+ 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

Amazon operates a global e-commerce platform with a large online marketplace that connects consumers to both direct sales and third-party sellers across many product categories. It earns money from product sales and marketplace fees, Amazon Prime subscriptions, and AWS cloud services, plus a large Amazon Associates affiliate network. The platform combines fast shipping, streaming, cloud computing, and digital services to reach customers across numerous countries. Its goal is to be the world’s most customer-centric company by offering convenient access to a wide range of products and services.

Company Size

10,001+

Company Stage

IPO

Headquarters

Seattle, Washington

Founded

1994

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