Job Description

DESCRIPTION

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 powerful, 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:


Work on a disruptive product thats still in its early stages

Solve challenging problems that will revolutionize storage layer of database computing in the cloud

Build a custom storage engine for redshift database

Work for a company thats a recognized leader in the cloud computing space

Be involved in the fast growing, big data space

We are looking for developers with expertise and passion for building large scale distributed systems. Experience with parallel query optimization and execution, large scale data analytics, highly available/fault tolerant systems, replicated data storage, and operating complex services running in the cloud are all pluses.

In this role, you will have responsibility for:
Translating functional and technical requirements into detailed architecture and design
Coding and testing complex system components
Participating in code and design reviews to maintain our high development standards
Working with other teams to deliver and operate large scale, distributed services in the cloud
Overall system architecture, scalability, reliability, and performance
Mentoring other engineers, defining our challenging technical culture, and helping to build a fast-growing team

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

2+ years of non-internship professional software development experience
Programming experience with at least one modern language such as Java, C++, or C including object-oriented design
1+ years of experience contributing to the architecture and design (architecture, design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and current systems.
3 - 15 years experience writing large scale systems in C/C++
2+ years of experience contributing to the architecture and design (architecture, design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and current systems.
Strong knowledge of data structures and algorithms
Bachelors in Computer Science or Engineering, or equivalent experience

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

Familiar or built data services such as snapshots, backup, clones, de-duplication, Journaling etc. for storage products.
Experienced writing multi-threaded programs requiring concurrency and synchronization primitives
Write very high quality code that is robust and easy to maintain
Experienced debugging, diagnosing, and trouble-shooting complex, production software
Strong understanding of system performance and scaling
Ability to drive tasks to completion and take ownership of projects
Ability to work in a fast paced and agile development environment
Possess excellent communication, sharp analytical abilities, and proven design skills
Experience delivering and operating large scale, highly available distributed systems is a plus
Experience with database systems internals, query optimization, and storage systems
Experience with large-scale data analytics and data warehousing is a plus
Masters or PhD in Computer Science