Software Development Engineer, Amazon Redshift Query Optimizer
$165.2k - $223.6kAmazon
Description
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 always looking for the innovative engineers to help shape the future of Redshift.
We are actively hiring talented software engineers in the query optimization team of Redshift. The parallel-aware query optimizer of Redshift is at the heart of Redshift data plane and is responsible for finding optimal execution plans for tactical and complex queries running on the Redshift’s MPP engine.
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.
Key job responsibilities
As a Software Development Engineer in Redshift, you will build systems that benefit Redshift clusters across the world. You will take significant ownership on 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. And you will lead engineers on substantial projects and help develop a flourishing team through active mentoring and hiring.
About the team
AWS values diverse experiences. Even if you do not meet all of the preferred qualifications and skills listed in the job description, we encourage candidates to apply. If your career is just starting, hasn’t followed a traditional path, or includes alternative experiences, don’t let it stop you from applying.
Why AWS? Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the world’s most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform. We pioneered cloud computing and never stopped innovating — that’s why customers from the most successful startups to Global 500 companies trust our robust suite of products and services to power their businesses.
Inclusive Team Culture Here at AWS, it’s in our nature to learn and be curious. Our employee-led affinity groups foster a culture of inclusion that empower us to be proud of our differences. Ongoing events and learning experiences, including our Conversations on Race and Ethnicity (CORE) and AmazeCon conferences, inspire us to never stop embracing our uniqueness.
Mentorship & Career Growth We’re continuously raising our performance bar as we strive to become Earth’s Best Employer. That’s why you’ll find endless knowledge-sharing, mentorship and other career-advancing resources here to help you develop into a better-rounded professional.
Work/Life Balance We value work-life harmony. Achieving success at work should never come at the expense of sacrifices at home, which is why we strive for flexibility as part of our working culture. When we feel supported in the workplace and at home, there’s nothing we can’t achieve in the cloud.
Basic Qualifications
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
Preferred Qualifications
3+ 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
Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status.
Los Angeles County applicants: Job duties for this position include: work safely and cooperatively with other employees, supervisors, and staff; adhere to standards of excellence despite stressful conditions; communicate effectively and respectfully with employees, supervisors, and staff to ensure exceptional customer service; and follow all federal, state, and local laws and Company policies. Criminal history may have a direct, adverse, and negative relationship with some of the material job duties of this position. These include the duties and responsibilities listed above, as well as the abilities to adhere to company policies, exercise sound judgment, effectively manage stress and work safely and respectfully with others, exhibit trustworthiness and professionalism, and safeguard business operations and the Company’s reputation. Pursuant to the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.
Our inclusive culture empowers Amazonians to deliver the best results for our customers. If you have a disability and need a workplace accommodation or adjustment during the application and hiring process, including support for the interview or onboarding process, please visit for more information. If the country/region you’re applying in isn’t listed, please contact your Recruiting Partner.
The base salary range for this position is listed below. Your Amazon package will include sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience, qualifications, and location. Amazon also offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans, EAP, Mental Health Support, Medical Advice Line, Flexible Spending Accounts, Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage), 401(k) matching, paid time off, and parental leave. Learn more about our benefits at .
USA, CA, East Palo Alto - 165,200.00 - 223,600.00 USD annually
$165.2k - $223.6k
...Amazon Redshift is the world's most popular fully managed cloud... ...for the innovative engineers to help shape the future... ...actively hiring talented software engineers in the query optimization team of Redshift. The parallel... ...As a Software Development Engineer in Redshift, you...SuggestedInternshipLocal areaFlexible hours$193.3k - $261.5k
...Amazon Redshift is one of the world's most popular... ...for the innovative engineers to help shape the... ...a talented Senior Software Engineer in the Query Processing team of... ...a Senior Software Development Engineer in Redshift... ...execution, query optimization, high performance...SuggestedInternshipLocal areaFlexible hours- ...Amazon Redshift Software Development Engineer Are you eager to work on a product that allows customers to crunch through exabytes of data in the cloud per day to make business critical decisions? Amazon Redshift is the world's most popular fully managed petabyte-scale...Suggested
$165.2k - $223.6k
...Description Amazon Redshift is one of the world’s most popular fully... ...looking for the innovative engineers to help shape the future of... ...actively hiring a talented Software Engineer II in the... ...responsibilities As a Software Development Engineer in Redshift, you will...SuggestedInternshipLocal areaFlexible hours$193.3k - $261.5k
...Amazon Aurora DSQL is a serverless, distributed SQL database... .... We are seeking an engineer to enhance the query optimization and execution layer of... ...and maintain innovative software solutions to transform... ...Work in a startup-like development environment, where you're...SuggestedInternshipLocal areaFlexible hours$165.2k - $223.6k
...systems in the cloud? Amazon Redshift is a rapidly growing... ...on which every query, every table, and every... ...within the Redshift engine, tackling large-scale... ..., and performance optimization at massive scale. We... ...internship professional software development experience - 1+...InternshipLocal areaFlexible hours$167.8k - $227k
...Amazon Web Services (AWS) provides companies... ...cloud. Amazon Redshift is a rapidly growing... ...increase their query performance when... ...senior database engineers that are passionate... ...professional software development experience - Experience... ...writing and optimizing SQL queries with...InternshipLocal areaFlexible hours$193.3k - $261.5k
...Join us at Redshift Catalog team to solve most challenging... ...AWS Redshift query processing engine and catalog, solving... ...for design and development of Redshift catalog,... ...internship professional software development... ...science or equivalent Amazon is an equal opportunity...InternshipLocal areaFlexible hours$165.2k - $223.6k
...Who are we? Amazon Advertising builds and manages systems with high performance... ...Who are you? You are a strong Software Development Engineer who is passionate about performance and... ...dive into client or server systems to optimize for performance, maintainability, scalability...Hourly payInternshipLocal areaFlexible hours$193.3k - $261.5k
...the shopping experience on Amazon through the conversational... ...alongside talented scientists, engineers, and technical program... ...looking for an experienced Software Development Engineer with expertise in... ...service reliability metrics, and optimizations focused on building...InternshipLocal areaFlexible hours$160k - $225k
...agents to automate and optimize performance... ...expand our product and engineering teams, bringing... ...While traditional software has a clear playbook... ...Ads, Meta Ads, Amazon Ads). Define and... ...storage, retrieval, and query performance across... ..., Snowflake, Redshift, or similar). Familiarity...$160.36k - $240.54k
...Senior Software Engineer, Cloud Efficiency & Cost Optimization Mountain View, California (HQ) Who We Are Nuro is a self-driving technology company on... ...engineers reason about storage, retention, data layout, query patterns, compute sizing, and reservation strategy....$165.2k - $223.6k
...database services? Amazon Aurora is an exciting... .... If you're an engineer who is looking to grow... ...brainstorm, mentor, and get software built together. We... ...internals, caching, query optimization, languages, and... ...These are core systems development positions where you will...InternshipLocal areaImmediate startWorldwideFlexible hours$193.3k - $261.5k
...foundational services such as Amazon's Simple Storage... ..., you'll support the development and management of... ...Bangalore. If you're an engineer who is looking to... ..., mentor, and get software built together. We build... ...internals, caching, query optimization, languages, and...InternshipLocal areaImmediate startWorldwideFlexible hours$251k - $310k
...Technical Lead Manager, Software Infra/Query Storage Waymo is an autonomous... ...grow a team of software engineers, fostering a culture of... ...expansion Drive the design, development, and operation of highly... ..., data modeling, and SQL optimization. Experience with stream...Full timeRemote work$174k - $252k
Senior Software Engineer, Generative AI, Ads Query Understanding corporate_fare Google place Mountain View, CA... ...years of experience with software development in C++ and python programming... ...model deployment, model evaluation, optimization, data processing, debugging). 1...Full time- ...services company focused on outsourced product development and digital re-engineering. Leveraging our CaptiveCoE™ engagement model, we... ...and analytics platforms such as AWS Redshift. Optimize storage and querying strategies using AWS S3 data lakes. Data Workflow...
$160k - $230k
...Applied Performance Engineer At Snowflake, we are... ...architecture, query processing, workload... ...service platforms (e.g. Amazon AWS, Microsoft Azure,... ...Google BigQuery, Amazon Redshift, Microsoft Synapse, Postgres... ...Flink, etc.) Software development experience with C/C++...Flexible hours$165.2k - $223.6k
...of RDS deployments at Amazon Web Service (AWS) interesting... ...cloud ? If you're an engineer who want to be... ...brainstorm, mentor, and get software built together. We... ...professional software development experience - 2+... ...ingestion, checkpoint optimization, and exactly-once delivery...InternshipLocal areaFlexible hours$190k - $240k
...to providing cutting-edge solutions that optimize ad performance and deliver exceptional... ...skilled and experienced front-end staff engineer to join our dynamic team and help shape... ...advertising capabilities. As a Staff Engineer, Software Engineering you will be part of a...$161k - $264.5k
...technologies; Arene, our software development platform for software‑... ...driving data, solving optimization problems, minimizing latency... ...technical, hands‑on ML Engineering Manager to lead a group... ...with Google Big Query, Snowflake or AWS Redshift in production. Experience...Temporary workWork at office3 days per week$165.2k - $223.6k
...Amazon Leo is an initiative to launch a constellation of Low Earth... ...and Forwarding, Traffic Engineering, and SDN technologies to deliver... ...Implement highly-available software that will drive networking... ...processes used for software development, implementation, testing, and...Permanent employmentInternshipLocal areaRemote workFlexible hours$165.2k - $223.6k
...Amazon Leo is an initiative to launch a constellation of Low Earth Orbit... ...you to architect and build software from the ground up and drive the engineering culture of the team. Export Control... ...set best practices for software development processes. A day in the life...Permanent employmentInternshipLocal areaWork from homeFlexible hours$147k - $211k
Google Inc. in Sunnyvale is seeking a Software Engineer to design and build the graph query engine within Cloud Spanner. The role involves optimizing high-performance C++ code to ensure... ...’s degree and two years of software development experience. A competitive salary...$177.8k - $240.5k
...Description AWS is one of Amazon's largest and fastest... ...place for you. The ASP Data Engineering Team supports the data needs... ...with AWS technologies like Redshift, S3, AWS Glue, EMR, Kinesis... ...in writing complex, highly-optimized SQL queries across large datasets...Local areaWorldwideFlexible hours- ...learning and artificial intelligence to optimize renewable energy and battery storage... ...Proficiency in Python with professional software engineering standards. High attention to detail.... ...with Git, CI/CD pipelines, and agile development. Experience with SQL-based databases...
$165.2k - $223.6k
...Description As a Software Development Engineer on the Sponsored Products and Brands Off-Search team,... ...and Brands advertising. Build and optimize data pipelines and services to improve... ...Sponsored Products and Brands (SPB) team at Amazon Ads is re-imagining the advertising...InternshipSeasonal workLocal areaFlexible hours$199.3k - $264.5k
...Applied Intuition is a Tier 1 vehicle software supplier that accelerates the... ...We are looking for a Software Engineer with deep experience in optimizing the application-layer software for... ...+ years of experience in software development ~ Strong C++ development skills...Full timeFor contractorsFor subcontractorCasual workWork at officeRemote workWorldwideDay shift$165.2k - $223.6k
...require 6-12 months of engineering effort for customers... ...deliver high-quality software applying Generative... ...applying. Why AWS? Amazon Web Services (AWS) is... ...professional software development experience - 1+... ...inference lifecycles, and optimization techniques -...InternshipLocal areaRemote workFlexible hours$193.3k - $261.5k
...industries and use cases? Amazon EMR provides a managed... ...looking for talented engineers to help us develop... ...with other internal development teams to solve key business... ...on-time high-quality software. You will have an... ...developing solutions to optimize the execution of...InternshipLocal areaFlexible hours
Do you want to receive more vacancies?
Subscribe and receive similar vacancies to Software Development Engineer, Amazon Redshift Query Optimizer. Be the first to apply!
- graduate software developer Palo Alto, CA
- rust software engineer Palo Alto, CA
- senior software design engineer Palo Alto, CA
- software engineer amazon Palo Alto, CA
- software developer positions Palo Alto, CA
- software engineer full time Palo Alto, CA
- new graduate software engineer Palo Alto, CA
- software engineer Palo Alto, CA
- software engineer intern Palo Alto, CA
- agile software developer Palo Alto, CA

