Database Engineer, Amazon Redshift

Amazon Redshift is a fast, fully managed, petabyte-scale data warehouse service. The role involves working with customers on database design, performance, and workload analysis. The team builds a disruptive cloud data warehouse product.

• Demonstrate in-depth knowledge of database or data warehouse systems internals including relational database design and distributed databases/MPP architectures
• Lead strategic data architecture & database design discussions with customers
• Drive and oversee workload analysis, performance benchmarking and troubleshooting efforts with customers in their environments
• Clearly communicate deep technical topics to customers
• Influence the engineering team roadmap towards building a product that is scalable, easy to use and build on, and addresses customer needs
• Conduct POC’s with customers in competitive situations
• Leverage good coding/scripting skills to automate tasks and improve workload analysis mechanisms

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, a related technical field or equivalent
• Experience in software development, or experience that includes strong analytical skills, attention to detail, and effective communication abilities

• Work on a disruptive product that’s 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 that’s a recognized leader in the cloud computing space
• Be involved in the fast growing, big data space
• Flexible work hours and arrangements
• Employee-led affinity groups fostering a culture of inclusion
• Endless knowledge-sharing, mentorship and other career-advancing resources