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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 in the cloud. It enables customers to dramatically increase their 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.
Amazon Redshift is the most popular and fastest cloud data warehouse. It is integrated with customers data lake, offers up to 3x faster performance than any other data warehouse, and costs up to 75% less than any other cloud data warehouse.
Joining the Amazon Redshift team gives you the opportunity to:
- Work on a disruptive product that's still in its early stages
- Solve challenging problems that will revolutionize database computing in the cloud
- Build a product that will leverage the scale of resources available in the cloud
- Work for a company that's a recognized leader in the cloud computing space
- Be involved in the fast growing, big data space
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.
We expect candidates to be able to:
- 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
About the team
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BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, a related technical field or equivalent
- 5+ years of non-internship 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
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
- Experience in software development, or experience that includes strong analytical skills, attention to detail, and effective communication abilities
- Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, mathematics or equivalent, or experience in 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.
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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The base salary range for this position is listed below. Your Amazon package will include sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience, qualifications, and location. 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 https://amazon.jobs/en/benefits.
USA, CA, East Palo Alto - 143,500.00 - 194,200.00 USD annually
USA, WA, Redmond - 124,700.00 - 168,800.00 USD annually