Software Development Engineer I, Redshift

Job 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 innovative engineers to help shape the future of Redshift.

About The Team

Distributed data management is at the heart of Amazon Redshift data analytics services and is responsible for delivering ultra-fast and highly scalable performance. We are building and operating large-scale, distributed, fault-tolerant data and transaction management solutions using specialized data structures, distributed consensus algorithms, and many other advanced technologies. We are working with AWS platform teams in shaping requirements and solutions for next-generation platforms to run database/analytics applications.

Our team consists of industry-leading innovators, with multitudes of patents and research publications in this space. We are a fun-loving team, passionate about ideating, designing, delivering, and operating data analytics services to delight customers with extreme performance and scalability. We are distributed across many locations in the US, Germany, and are expanding in other geographies.

Key Job Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and deliver state-of-the-art distributed, high-performance data and transaction management processing algorithms and solutions.
• Deploy and monitor new features in a highly available and fault-tolerant system running in the cloud.

Basic Qualifications

• Currently enrolled in or completed a Master’s Degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Data Science, Electrical Engineering, or majors relating to these fields. To qualify, applicants should have earned a Master’s degree between May 2023 and September 2024.
• Programming experience with at least one modern language such as Java, C++, or C# including object-oriented design.
• Internship, project, or academic experience in at least one of the areas: internals, kernel, OS/storage systems, job scheduling, resource management, file systems, search, or performance engineering.

Preferred Qualifications

• Pursuing PhD Degree with a focus on Systems / Information Theory, Databases, Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or related.
• Strong knowledge of Computer Science fundamentals in object-oriented design, data structures, algorithm design, problem-solving, and complexity analysis.
• Strong software development skills.

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Compensation

Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $99,500/year in our lowest geographic market up to $200,000/year in our highest geographic market. Pay is based on a number of factors including market location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Amazon is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered, equity, sign-on payments, and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package, in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits.