Sr. Software Dev Engineer, Redshift Catalog

Sr. Software Dev Engineer, Redshift Catalog

Job  | Amazon Development Center U.S., Inc.

Join us at Redshift Catalog team to solve most challenging problems that come with petabyte scale system! You will be diving deep into the complex interactions between AWS Redshift query processing engine and catalog, solving problems of reliable and fast metadata storage  need an engineer with good understanding of the distributed systems and ability to ask the right questions to build best in class analytics database engine that is highly efficient and easy to use.

You will be working on new features that make Redshift innovative and competitive analytics engine.

• Design and develop the Redshift catalog.
• Debug hard problems and improve performance and availability.
• Mentor and grow junior engineers.

Our team is in charge of metadata storage and processing particularly in Redshift and Lakehouse architecture in general. We make sure that it's reliable, maintainable and performant. We put lots of emphasis into automating away operational tasks and focusing on efficiency, reliability and simplicity of the system. We create integrations between Redshift and other services and metadata storage systems, enabling human and programmatic discovery and search of metadata at cloud scale.

• 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.

Amazon also offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for 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. Learn more about our benefits at (Use the "Apply for this Job" box below)..

USA, CA, East Palo Alto – $ – $ USD annually.

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