The role is for a senior database engineer on the Amazon Redshift team, focusing on data warehousing and customer collaboration. Candidates will work on a rapidly growing cloud data warehouse service, solving complex problems and enhancing database computing. The position emphasizes the importance of customer engagement and technical leadership in database design and performance. AWS values diverse experiences and promotes a culture of inclusion and work-life balance.

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field.
• 5+ years of non-internship professional software development experience.
• Experience in writing complex, highly-optimized SQL queries across large datasets.
• Knowledge of overall system architecture, scalability, reliability, and performance in a database environment.
• Experience with large-scale data analytics and data warehousing.

• Demonstrate in-depth knowledge of database or data warehouse systems internals.
• Lead strategic data architecture and database design discussions with customers.
• Drive and oversee workload analysis, performance benchmarking, and troubleshooting efforts with customers.
• Clearly communicate deep technical topics to customers.
• Influence the engineering team roadmap towards building a scalable and user-friendly product.
• Conduct POCs with customers in competitive situations.
• Leverage coding and scripting skills to automate tasks and improve workload analysis mechanisms.

• Employees at Amazon are often offered comprehensive health benefits—including multiple medical plan options (no pre-existing condition exclusions, 100% covered in-network preventive care), dental and vision plans, a 24/7 medical advice line from day one, expert second-opinion services, and broad mental-health support with several free counseling sessions (including pediatric). Financial wellness typically includes a 401(k) with company match (up to 2%), Restricted Stock Units (equity), FSAs, an emergency savings program, product and partner discounts, and even college-savings and home-purchase programs. Overall, the package is designed to support employees and their families’ health, finances, and day-to-day life.