Software Development Engineer - Amazon Redshift, Redshift
Amazon · East Palo Alto, CA · Software Development
About this role
Amazon is hiring a mid-level Software Engineer based in East Palo Alto, CA. The posting calls out experience with Java, C#, SQL, AWS. Compensation is listed at $165,200–$223,600 per year.
- Role
- Software Engineer
- Function
- software engineering
- Level
- mid
- Track
- Individual contributor
- Employment
- Full-time
- Location
- East Palo Alto, CA
- Department
- Software Development
- Posted
- Mar 29, 2026
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Job description
from Amazon careersAmazon 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. We are actively hiring talented software engineers in the query processing team of Redshift. Query processing is at the heart of Redshift data plane and is responsible for query analysis, query optimization and the massive parallel execution engine. As a software engineer in query processing, you will: - Design and implement new SQL language features which add to the rich functionalities Redshift provides to the end users such as analysts, data engineers and data scientists. - Design and implement state-of-the-art distributed data processing algorithms for the parallel execution query engine. - Work on integration between Redshift and other AWS services in the AWS ecosystem, including data ingestion, federation, machine learning and many more. - Identify opportunities for performance improvement by in-depth analysis of the query plan and query execution states. -…