System Development Engineer, AWS Redshift
Amazon · East Palo Alto, CA · Software Development
About this role
Amazon is hiring a mid-level Systems Engineer in the operations function based in East Palo Alto, CA. The posting calls out experience with Python, Java, Go, C#. Compensation is listed at $148,700–$201,200 per year.
- Role
- Systems Engineer
- Function
- operations
- Level
- mid
- Track
- Individual contributor
- Employment
- Full-time
- Location
- East Palo Alto, CA
- Department
- Software Development
- Posted
- Mar 16, 2026
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Job description
from Amazon careersAmazon Redshift is one of the world's most popular fully managed cloud data warehouses, trusted by tens of thousands of enterprise customers to process exabytes of data daily and power business-critical decisions. In such a mission-critical environment, we are constantly reinventing ourselves to stay ahead and continue delivering for our customers — and we're looking for innovative engineers to help lead that charge. We are actively hiring a System Development Engineer II on the Redshift Control Plane team. If you are motivated by working in a fast-paced environment, have full ownership of your work, and build a team of excellent engineers — this role is for you! Key job responsibilities - Identifying and solving challenging systems, process and tooling issues to make things better for our customers - Designing and implementing software components, products or services which improve operational efficiency - Investigating technical issues thoroughly, performing root cause analysis, identifying changes to procedures and systems and implementing long term fixes to avoid repeating issues. - Providing solutions to technically challenging real business problems in a global organization A day in the life As you design and code solutions to help our team drive efficiencies in software architecture, you’ll create metrics,…