senior data engineering Database Engineer ic · Posted Feb 24, 2026
$167,800 – $227,000
USD per year

About this role

Amazon is hiring a senior-level Database Engineer in the data engineering function based in East Palo Alto, CA. The posting calls out experience with SQL, AWS, Redshift, Data Modeling. Compensation is listed at $167,800–$227,000 per year.

Role
Database Engineer
Function
data engineering
Level
senior
Track
Individual contributor
Employment
Full-time
Location
East Palo Alto, CA
Department
Software Development
Posted
Feb 24, 2026
AI Summary
Senior Database Engineer working with AWS Redshift to help customers with data warehouse design, performance optimization, and architecture decisions. Requires deep knowledge of distributed databases, MPP architectures, and ability to lead technical discussions while influencing product roadmap.

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Job description

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Amazon Web Services (AWS) provides companies of all sizes with an infrastructure web services platform in the cloud. Amazon Redshift is a rapidly growing, fast, fully managed, petabyte-scale data warehouse service in the cloud. It enables customers to dramatically increase their query performance when analyzing virtually any size data set using the same SQL-based business intelligence tools they use today. No other data warehouse makes it as easy to gain new insights. With Redshift customers can query petabytes of structured and semi-structured data across their data warehouse and data lake using standard SQL. Amazon Redshift is the most popular and fastest cloud data warehouse. It is integrated with customers data lake, offers up to 3x faster performance than any other data warehouse, and costs up to 75% less than any other cloud data warehouse. Joining the Amazon Redshift team gives you the opportunity to: - 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…

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