Sr. Software Development Engineer - Amazon Redshift, Query Processing

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the world's most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform. They are seeking a Senior Software Development Engineer to join the Query Processing team of Redshift, where the role involves building systems for Redshift clusters, defining new features, and leading engineering projects to enhance the data processing capabilities.

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 our 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

Requirements:

• 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
• Experience with distributed computing and enterprise-wide systems
• Proficiency in at least one modern programming language like C++, Java, or Rust building and operating mission-critical, highly available systems
• 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
• Requires strong coding skills with emphasis on logical thinking, data structures, algorithms, and problem-solving capabilities
• Experience with distributed (multi-tiered) systems architecture
• Experience performing live system and core analysis using GDB