Database Engineer, Amazon Redshift

Amazon Web Services (AWS) provides companies of all sizes with an infrastructure web services platform in the cloud. Amazon Redshift is a rapidly growing, fast, fully managed, petabyte‑scale data warehouse service that enables customers to dramatically increase query performance when analyzing virtually any size data set using the same SQL‑based business intelligence tools they use today. No other data warehouse makes it as easy to gain new insights.

With Redshift customers can query petabytes of structured and semi‑structured data across their data warehouse and data lake using standard SQL.

We are looking for senior database engineers that are passionate about data warehousing and love to work with customers to help them with database design, usage patterns and performance.

• Demonstrate in‑depth knowledge of database or data warehouse systems internals including relational database design and distributed databases/MPP architectures.
• Lead strategic data architecture & database design discussions with customers.
• Drive and oversee workload analysis, performance benchmarking and troubleshooting efforts with customers in their environments.
• Clearly communicate deep technical topics to customers.
• Influence the engineering team roadmap towards building a product that is scalable, easy to use and build on, and addresses customer needs.
• Conduct POC’s with customers in competitive situations.
• Leverage good coding/scripting skills to automate tasks and improve workload analysis mechanisms.

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, a related technical field or equivalent.
• 5+ years of professional software development experience.
• Experience in writing complex, highly optimized SQL queries across large datasets.
• Knowledge of overall system architecture, scalability, reliability, and performance in a database environment.
• Experience with large‑scale data analytics and data warehousing.

• Experience in software development, with strong analytical skills, attention to detail, and effective communication abilities.
• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, engineering, mathematics or equivalent, or experience in an external enterprise customer‑facing role as a technical lead, with strong oral and written communication skills, presenting to both large and small audiences.

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

Amazon also offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life & AD&D insurance, optional Supplemental life plans, EAP, Mental Health Support, Medical Advice Line, Flexible Spending Accounts, Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage), 401(k) matching, paid time off, and parental leave.

Base salary ranges: USA, CA, East Palo Alto –  –  USD annually; USA, WA, Redmond –  –  USD annually.