Amazon Redshift is the world’s most popular fully managed cloud data warehouse. Tens of thousands of enterprise customers use Redshift to crunch through exabytes of data in the cloud to make business critical decisions every day. To stay ahead in such a mission critical setting, at Redshift, we must always re-invent ourselves for customers. We are always looking for the innovative engineers to help shape the future of Redshift.
Key job responsibilities
As a software engineer in vectorized query execution team, you will:
• Design and implement state-of-the-art distributed data processing algorithms for the parallel execution query engine.
• Identify opportunities for performance improvement by in-depth analysis of the query plan and query execution states.
• Deploy and monitor new features in a highly available and fault tolerant system running in the cloud.
This is a unique and rare opportunity to get in on the ground floor within a fast-growing business and help shape the technology powering analytical workloads for Fortune 500 companies, startups, and everything in between. You will bring deep technical, algorithmic and coding expertise with the ability to work within a fast moving and collaborative environment in the industry leading cloud company to deliver a broad business impact. If this sounds exciting to you - come build the future with us!
About the team
Query Processing team is at the heart of Redshift data plane and is responsible for query analysis, query optimization and massively parallel execution engine. Query Processing team is focused on maintaining Amazon Redshift’s lead on price-performance.
Query Processing team delivers extreme performance by uniquely combining novel techniques for distributed query planning, code generation, query compilation, query scheduling, resource-planning, and superscalar query execution with optimized data encodings accessed with high performance SIMD kernels, and hardware conscious algorithms. We also work closely with AWS platform teams in shaping requirements for next generation platforms to run database/analytics applications.
Our team consists of industry leading innovators, with multitudes of patents and research publications in this space. We are a fun-loving team, that is passionate about ideating, designing and delivering query processing and overall database architecture towards extreme performance. We are distributed across many locations in US, Germany, and are expanding in other geographies.
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• A degree in Computer Science / Engineering / Mathematics / Technology / Related science/technical field OR equivalent training, certifications, and/or experience (0-2 years).
• Programming experience with C or C++
• Internship, project, or academic experience in at least one of the areas: query optimization, job scheduling, resource management, query execution, data compression technologies, information theory, GPUs, or ML.
• Strong knowledge of Computer Science fundamentals in object-oriented design, data structures, algorithm design, problem solving, and complexity analysis
• Strong software development skills
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