Systems Development Engineer, Redshift Service

Are you a "Find it, Fix it, Automate it, Never worry about it again" kind of engineer? Are you interested in building hyper-scale database services in the cloud? Do you want to have direct and immediate impact on hundreds of thousands of users who use AWS database services?

Amazon Web Services (AWS) provides `companies of all sizes with an infrastructure web services platform in the cloud. With AWS, you can requisition compute power, storage, and other services – paying as you go for only the resources you need. Amazon Redshift is rapidly growing, fast, and 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. They can launch a fully operational service with a few clicks for as low as under $1000 per terabyte per year. Amazon Redshift manages all the work needed to set up, operate, and scale a data warehouse, from provisioning capacity and installing software to monitoring and backing up the cluster, to applying patches and upgrades. By automating these labor-intensive tasks, Amazon Redshift enables customers to spend their time focusing on their data and business insights, rather than on procuring and managing infrastructure.

Joining the Amazon Redshift team gives you the opportunity to:

• 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

Amazon Redshift team is looking for experienced DevOps Engineers to build out our automation of critical operational functions that ensures thousands of servers across multiple datacenters worldwide maintain lights on. You will own the design and development of significant and impactful projects to future proof our industries leading datawarehouse service for the cloud. This is a hands on position where you will be asked to do everything from building solutions from the ground up to mentoring other engineers. You need to not only have a good track record of delivering, but also excel in communication, leadership and customer focus. A successful candidate will bring deep technical systems, networking and coding expertise and has the ability to work within a fast moving, startup environment in a large company to deliver a broad business impact. Experience with highly available/fault tolerant systems or operating complex services running in the cloud are all pluses.

Key job responsibilities

In this role, you will have responsibility for:

• Translating functional and technical requirements into detailed architecture and design
• Designing, building and testing complex system components
• Working with other teams to deliver and operate large scale, distributed services in the cloud
• Overall system architecture, scalability, reliability, and performance

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• Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent
• Experience programming with at least one modern language such as Java, C++, or C# including object-oriented design
• Experience using design patterns in object-oriented code

• Experience working with fast-moving, high-performance teams and driving innovative solutions tailored to unique business environments
• Experience communicating with users, other technical teams, and management to collect requirements, describe software product features, and technical designs
• Experience designing or architecting (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems, or experience in debugging, profiling, and implementing software engineering best practices in large-scale systems
• Experience with architecting highly available systems that utilize load balancing, horizontal scalability and high availability
• Experience with IaC (Infrastructure as Code) in any of Terraform, CFN, CDK

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