Job Description

DESCRIPTION

Amazon Redshift is a fast, scalable data warehouse that makes it simple and cost-effective for our customers to analyze data across their data warehouse and data lakes. Redshift delivers ten times faster performance than other data warehouses by using machine learning, massively parallel query execution, and columnar storage on high-performance disk.
As the Sr Manager of Software Development for Redshift, you will be responsible for leading a group of top talent in the design and development of a product that allows for the setup and deployment of new data warehouses in minutes, and running queries across petabytes of data stored in data warehouses. Amazon Redshift is simple to use, enabling customers to deploy a new data warehouse in minutes. Redshift automates most of the common administrative tasks to manage, monitor, and scale your data warehouse. This allows customers to break free from the complexities of managing on-premises data warehouses.

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 database computing in the cloud
Build a product that will leverage the scale of resources available in the cloud
Work for a company thats a recognized leader in the cloud computing space
Be involved in the fast growing, big data space
Responsibilities include:
Growing and leading a data warehouse software development team responsible for rethinking the assumptions behind how traditional DW services are built and thinking how to build database services best suited for the cloud.
You will develop the design, implementation, testing and deployment of these services.
You will draw from your deep and broad technical and management expertise to mentor senior engineers and managers, complete hands-on technical work and provide leadership on complex technical issues, design tradeoffs, and feature and schedule prioritization.
This is one of our most strategic technical projects with a long-term vision and an opportunity to deliver both significant business and industry-wide technical impact.
As an engineering leader within Database Services, you will work with senior executives to develop business targets and resource requirements, influence our technical and business strategy, help hire talented engineers and managers, and conceive innovative new solutions for our customers.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

Bachelors degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or related technical discipline
10+ years of experience in software engineering
5+ years experience managing people + 2 years experience managing managers
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

Masters or PhD in Computer Science or Engineering
Experience building a commercial data warehouse or database engine product
A leadership position in a team delivering solutions at scale

Amazon is an Equal Opportunity Employer Minority / Women / Disability / Veteran / Gender Identity / Sexual Orientation / Age