Software Development Engineer, Amazon Redshift Query Optimizer

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the world’s most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform. They are seeking a Software Development Engineer to join the query optimization team for Amazon Redshift, where the role involves building systems that enhance Redshift clusters globally and leading substantial projects while mentoring engineers.

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

Requirements:

• 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
• 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