Software Development Engineer, Amazon Redshift Data Foundations, Redshift Data Foundations

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 data analytic service in the cloud. Tens of thousands of customers use Redshift to crunch through exabytes of data 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 our customers. We are looking for the innovative engineers to help shape the future of Redshift.

Distributed data and transaction management is at the heart of Amazon Redshift data analytics services and is responsible for delivering ultra-fast, highly scalable and cost-effective performance. We are building and operating large scale, distributed, fault-tolerant data and transaction management solutions using specialized data structures, distributed consensus algorithms, machine learning, massive parallel execution and many other advanced technologies. Redshift seamlessly scales across multiple AWS availability zones and regions across the globe.

We are working across AWS in shaping requirements and solutions for next generation data analytics platforms and services. Our team consists of industry leading innovators, with multitudes of patents and research publications in this space. We are a fun-loving team, that is passionate about ideating, designing, delivering and operating data analytics services to delight customers with performance and scalability. We are distributed across many locations in US, Germany, Canada and are expanding in other geographies.

If you are interested to contribute to the next generation hyper-scale data analytics services and architecture, are curious and get things done, we would like you to consider our team. You will have the opportunity and responsibility to:

• Design, implement and deliver state-of-the-art distributed, high-performance data and transaction management processing algorithms and solutions
• Continuously invent and re-architect components and workflows creating new technologies to meet the future demands in data analytics
• Deploy and monitor new features in a highly available and fault tolerant system running in the cloud
• Collaborate with and mentor other engineers, providing technical guidance and helping to build a fast-growing team

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.

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.