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 Sr. 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 Sr. Software Development Engineer, in Redshift Builder Experience, you will own and lead projects that deliver tools and infrastructure used to develop, test, and build Redshift. You will own our overall strategy for an area to drive 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.


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.

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

East Palo Alto, CA, USA | Seattle, WA, USA