The Amazon Redshift Performance Engineering team is looking for an experienced performance engineer who is passionate about database and distributed systems performance. Join our team and help us make the fastest data warehouse even faster!

As part of the Redshift Performance Engineering team, you will use your experience and skills to identify ways to improve performance and help set the direction and priorities of other engineering teams. You will tackle some of the most challenging performance problems and get involved in performance optimization from the application level down to the code and hardware level.


Key job responsibilities
A Sr. Performance Engineer at Amazon Redshift needs to be able to diagnose any performance bottleneck. When diagnosing a performance issue, they need to be able to start with application logs, and dive deeper into the source code, profiling information, and OS and system metrics to RCA performance issues. They need to be able to run experiments and benchmarks to understand the performance of a complex distributed system and isolate performance issues. They also need to have strong judgement and experience to know what performance issues have the biggest impact to our customers. They need to be highly organized and able to clearly present results and recommendations to development teams. They need to be comfortable reading, modifying, and optimizing C++ code to test performance hypotheses.

We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations:

East Palo Alto, CA, USA