Software Dev Engineer I, Redshift

We are looking for candidates who are exceptional in systems programming, data structures and algorithms, and advanced databases. Research and hands-on experience working in database research groups and labs is preferred. You not only need to be a top software developer with a good academic and / or research track record, but also need to excel in communication and leadership. This is a unique and rare opportunity to get in on the ground floor within a fast-growing business and help shape the technology and the product.

About the team

Distributed data management is at the heart of Amazon Redshift data analytics services and is responsible for delivering ultra-fast and highly scalable performance. We are building and operating large scale, distributed, fault-tolerant data and transaction management solutions using specialized data structures, distributed consensus algorithms and many other advanced technologies. We are working with AWS platform teams in shaping requirements and solutions for next generation platforms to run database / analytics applications.

Our team consists of industry leading innovators, with multitudes of patents and research publications in this space. We are a fun-loving team, that is passionate about ideating, designing, delivering and operating data analytics services to delight customers with extreme performance and scalability. We are distributed across many locations in US, Germany, and are expanding in other geographies.

If you are interested to contribute to the next generation hyper-scale data analytics services and architecture, are curious and get things done, we would like you to consider our team.

Key job responsibilities

• Design, implement and deliver state-of-the-art distributed, high-performance data and transaction management processing algorithms and solutions.
• Deploy and monitor new features in a highly available and fault tolerant system running in the cloud.

We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations :

Toronto, ON, CAN | Vancouver, BC, CAN

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