Sr. Software Dev Engineer, Redshift Distributed Systems

Job description

Join the Amazon Redshift Distributed Systems team, focusing on catalog systems, to solve some of the most challenging problems in petabyte-scale distributed systems. You will dive deep into complex interactions within the Redshift engine, improving availability, performance, and debuggability of core infrastructure. We're looking for an engineer with a strong understanding of distributed systems and the curiosity to ask the right questions as we build a best-in-class analytics database engine. You will work on new features that keep Redshift at the forefront of cloud analytics. 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 owns the foundational catalog systems that keep Amazon Redshift running at petabyte scale. We build and maintain the metadata layer that manages every table, schema, and permission across the fleet. Our work spans catalog performance optimization, in-memory scaling and caching, multi-warehouse metadata consistency. We value operational excellence: automating away toil, building deep observability, and resolving complex customer issues that require understanding the full stack from query planning to distributed storage. About AWS AWS values diverse experiences. Even if you do not meet all of…