Sr. Software Dev Engineer, Redshift Catalog
Amazon · East Palo Alto, CA · Software Development
senior
Software Engineer
ic
5+ yrs Bachelor's
· Posted Jul 21, 2025
$193,300 – $261,500
USD per year
Skills
About this role
Amazon is hiring a senior-level Software Engineer based in East Palo Alto, CA. The posting calls out experience with AWS, Redshift, Distributed Systems and roughly 5+ years of relevant work. Listed education preference: a bachelor's degree or equivalent. Compensation is listed at $193,300–$261,500 per year.
- Role
- Software Engineer
- Function
- software engineering
- Level
- senior
- Track
- Individual contributor
- Employment
- Full-time
- Location
- East Palo Alto, CA
- Experience
- 5+ years
- Education
- Bachelor's degree
- Department
- Software Development
- Posted
- Jul 21, 2025
AI Summary
Design and develop Redshift catalog systems for petabyte-scale analytics databases, debugging complex distributed systems issues and improving performance. Lead architecture decisions, mentor junior engineers, and create integrations between Redshift and metadata storage systems. Requires 5+ years software development experience with proven leadership in system design and team mentorship.
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Job description
from Amazon careersJoin us at Redshift Catalog team to solve most challenging problems that come with petabyte scale system! You will be diving deep into the complex interactions between AWS Redshift query processing engine and catalog, solving problems of reliable and fast metadata storage at scale. We need an engineer with good understanding of the distributed systems and ability to ask the right questions to build best in class analytics database engine that is highly efficient and easy to use. You will be working on new features that make Redshift innovative and competitive analytics engine.
Key job responsibilities
You will be responsible for design and development of Redshift catalog, debugging hard problems, improving performance and availability, mentoring and growing junior engineers.
About the team
Our team is in charge metadata storage and processing particularly in Redshift and Lakehouse architecture in general. We make sure that it's reliable, maintainable and performant. We put lots of emphasis into automating away operational tasks and focusing on efficiency, reliability and simplicity of the system. We create integrations between Redshift and other services and metadata storage systems, enabling human and programmatic discovery and search of metadata at cloud scale.
Key job responsibilities
You will be responsible for design and development of Redshift catalog, debugging hard problems, improving performance and availability, mentoring and growing junior engineers.
About the team
Our team is in charge metadata storage and processing particularly in Redshift and Lakehouse architecture in general. We make sure that it's reliable, maintainable and performant. We put lots of emphasis into automating away operational tasks and focusing on efficiency, reliability and simplicity of the system. We create integrations between Redshift and other services and metadata storage systems, enabling human and programmatic discovery and search of metadata at cloud scale.
Basic Qualifications
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