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Amazon Software Development Engineer, Amazon Redshift in East Palo Alto, California
Description
Amazon Redshift is a rapidly growing, fast and powerful, 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 (https://www.amazon.jobs/en/principles).
As a Software Development Engineer on the Redshift Builder Experience team, you will work on projects that deliver tools and infrastructure used to develop, test, and build the Redshift Control and Data Planes. You will help drive our overall strategy for ensuring 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.
At Amazon, we strive to create an environment that makes every team member feel welcome and valued and enables everyone to perform at their best. This includes:
Inclusive Team Culture
Here at AWS, we embrace our differences. We are committed to furthering our culture of inclusion. We have ten employee-led affinity groups, reaching 40,000 employees in over 190 chapters globally. We have innovative benefit offerings, and host annual and ongoing learning experiences, including our Conversations on Race and Ethnicity (CORE) and AmazeCon (gender diversity) conferences.
Work/Life Balance
Our team puts a high value on work-life balance. It isn’t about how many hours you spend at home or at work; it’s about the flow you establish that brings energy to both parts of your life. We believe striking the right balance between your personal and professional life is critical to life-long happiness and fulfillment. We offer flexibility in working hours and encourage you to find your own balance between your work and personal lives.
Mentorship & Career Growth
Our team is dedicated to supporting new members. We have a broad mix of experience levels and tenures, and we’re building an environment that celebrates knowledge sharing and mentorship. Our senior members enjoy one-on-one mentoring and thorough, but kind, code reviews. We care about your career growth and strive to assign projects based on what will help each team member develop into a better-rounded engineer and enable them to take on more complex tasks in the future.
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Key job responsibilities
As a Sr Software Development Engineer on Redshift Builder Experience you will lead 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
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
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.
Los Angeles County applicants: Job duties for this position include: work safely and cooperatively with other employees, supervisors, and staff; adhere to standards of excellence despite stressful conditions; communicate effectively and respectfully with employees, supervisors, and staff to ensure exceptional customer service; and follow all federal, state, and local laws and Company policies. Criminal history may have a direct, adverse, and negative relationship with some of the material job duties of this position. These include the duties and responsibilities listed above, as well as the abilities to adhere to company policies, exercise sound judgment, effectively manage stress and work safely and respectfully with others, exhibit trustworthiness and professionalism, and safeguard business operations and the Company’s reputation. Pursuant to the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.
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Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $129,300/year in our lowest geographic market up to $223,600/year in our highest geographic market. Pay is based on a number of factors including market location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Amazon is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered, equity, sign-on payments, and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package, in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits. For more information, please visit https://www.aboutamazon.com/workplace/employee-benefits. This position will remain posted until filled. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.