Amazon Web Services (AWS) · 3 days ago
Sr. Software Development Engineer - Amazon Redshift, Query Processing
United States
Full-time
Remote
Senior Level
$151K/yr - $262K/yr
5+ years expAmazon Web Services (AWS) is the world's most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform. They are seeking a talented Senior Software Engineer in the Query Processing team of Redshift to build systems that benefit Redshift clusters globally, taking ownership of product vision and delivering customer value through innovative engineering solutions.
ConsultingDevOpsInformation TechnologySoftwareWeb Development
Responsibilities
Build systems that benefit Redshift clusters across the world
Take significant ownership on the overall product vision by defining new features and architecture
Distill complex and ambiguous requirements, converting them into meaningful projects that provide immense customer value
Own and code end-to-end deliverables from design, development, deployment, monitoring, and operations
Lead engineers on substantial projects and help develop a flourishing team through active mentoring and hiring
Design and code solutions to help the team drive efficiencies in software architecture
Create metrics, implement automation and other improvements, and resolve the root cause of software defects
Build high-impact solutions to deliver to our large customer base
Participate in design discussions, code review, and communicate with internal and external stakeholders
Work cross-functionally to help drive business decisions with your technical input
Work in a startup-like development environment, where you’re always working on the most important stuff
Qualification
Required
5+ years of non-internship professional software development experience
5+ years of programming with at least one software programming language experience
5+ years of leading design or architecture (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
Experience as a mentor, tech lead or leading an engineering team
4+ years of distributed systems experience, or Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, mathematics or equivalent
Experience with distributed computing and enterprise-wide systems Proficiency in at least one modern programming language like Java, C++, Rust, or Python building and operating mission-critical, highly available systems
Preferred
5+ 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
Master's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Data Science, Information Systems, or related STEM fields, or experience in writing algorithms and creating data structures
Experience with distributed systems at scale
Experience performing live system and core analysis using GDB
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Company
Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Launched in 2006, Amazon Web Services (AWS) began exposing key infrastructure services to businesses in the form of web services -- now widely known as cloud computing.
10001+ employees
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