Software Development Engineer, Amazon Redshift
Job ID: 2854802 | Amazon Web Services, Inc.
Amazon Redshift is a rapidly growing, fully managed, petabyte-scale data warehouse service in the cloud. It enables our customers to dramatically increase their performance when analyzing data sets of virtually any size using the same SQL-based business intelligence tools they use today. They can launch a fully operational service with a few clicks for as low as under $1000 per terabyte per year. Amazon Redshift is the fastest and most widely used cloud data warehouse, yet we are constantly improving our service based on our customers’ needs across all areas of the service.
This job opportunity is on the Redshift Builder Experience team that owns and influences how Redshift is built, evaluated and deployed. Redshift Builder Experience team works at the intersection of developer tooling, scaled test frameworks, and distributed systems to improve the pace of innovation and delivery for Redshift organization. We are searching for a Software Development Engineer with passion for building large-scale, highly available applications that improve developer productivity. We are looking for individuals that want to have a lasting impact on our product and team and that share our working style as codified in Amazon’s leadership principles (link).
As a Software Development Engineer, in Redshift Builder Experience, you will contribute to and lead projects that deliver tools and infrastructure used to develop, test, and build Redshift. You will contribute to our overall strategy for an area to drive engineering productivity, deliver quality and security, streamline builds and deployments, and spearhead the organization’s best practices. You will automate critical operational functions so thousands of servers across all AWS regions operate smoothly at massive scale and at lowest cost.
Key job responsibilities
As a Software Development Engineer on Redshift Builder Experience you will contribute to the architecture and development of infrastructure services at the intersection of developer tooling, scaled test frameworks, and distributed systems to improve the pace of innovation and delivery for Redshift organization. You will meticulously review and drive design choices, trade-offs, priorities and timelines. As a hands-on practitioner you will lead by example and mentor and inspire other engineers and leaders, participate in defining our engineering culture, and help to build a fast growing and highly motivated team. You are data and metric driven, and obsessively concerned about performance within resource constrained environments. An ideal candidate would obsess over customer needs, operational excellence, evaluate system performance, security, design system metrics and driving quality improvements.
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
* 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
* Experience programming with at least one software programming language
* Knowledge of professional software engineering & best practices for full software development life cycle, including coding standards, software architectures, code reviews, source control management, continuous deployments, testing, and operational excellence
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
* 3+ years of full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations experience
* Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent
* Experience building complex software systems that have been successfully delivered to customers
Amazon is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status.
Our inclusive culture empowers Amazonians to deliver the best results for our customers. If you have a disability and need a workplace accommodation or adjustment during the application and hiring process, including support for the interview or onboarding process, please visit link for more information.
#J-18808-Ljbffr