Software Dev Engineer III, Redshift

We are building next-generation hyper‑scale distributed systems in the cloud as part of Amazon Redshift, a rapidly growing petabyte‑scale data warehouse service. Tens of thousands of customers rely on Redshift to analyze exabytes of data every day to power their most critical analytics workloads.

Join the Amazon Redshift Data Foundation team to solve challenging problems in petabyte‑scale distributed data systems. Our team owns the critical foundation that underpins Redshift’s storage, metadata, durability, and reliability guarantees — the cornerstone on which every query, every table, and every customer workload depends. You will dive deep into complex interactions within the Redshift engine, tackling large‑scale, high‑complexity problems that span data storage architecture, durability mechanisms, and performance optimization at massive scale.

We are looking for an engineer with a strong understanding of distributed systems, storage internals, and a curiosity to ask the right questions as we build a best‑in‑class cloud analytics database engine. You will design and deliver features that keep Redshift at the forefront of cloud analytics — ensuring data is always safe, always accessible, and always fast.

• Innovate system architectures that address scalability, reliability, and performance for large‑scale distributed systems
• Design and develop core storage, metadata, and catalog subsystems that operate reliably at petabyte scale
• Solve large‑scale, high‑complexity problems spanning data durability, availability, consistency, and performance
• Debug deep, cross‑cutting issues that require understanding the full stack — from query planning to distributed storage to on‑disk data formats
• Drive performance improvements in storage I/O paths, metadata access patterns, in‑memory caching, and catalog operations
• Improve reliability and durability guarantees through resilient system design, automated recovery, and defensive engineering
• Mentor and grow junior engineers through design reviews, code reviews, and technical guidance
• Raise the bar on operational excellence by building deep observability, reducing operational toil, and strengthening the team’s ability to resolve complex customer‑impacting issues

• 5+ years of non‑internship professional software development experience
• 5+ years of programming with at least one software programming language
• 5+ years of leading design or architecture (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems
• Experience as a mentor, tech lead, or leading an engineering team

• 5+ 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

Your compensation includes a competitive salary range of $193,300 to $261,500 annually, sign‑on payments, and restricted stock units (RSUs). The complete benefits package includes health, dental, vision, prescription coverage, life and AD&D insurance, 401(k) matching, paid time off, parental leave, and additional support resources.

Amazon is an equal‑opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status.