Database Engineer, Amazon Redshift
Core
Senior Database Engineer specializing in Amazon Redshift, focusing on database design, usage patterns, performance optimization, and customer-facing technical leadership.
Role type
Senior IC Database Engineer (Data Warehousing)
Builds
Amazon Redshift, a fully managed petabyte-scale cloud data warehouse
Domain
Cloud computing, Data Warehousing, Big Data
Deliverable
production ML models | product features | dashboards & analysis
Required skills
SQL query optimization, distributed database internals, MPP architectures, system scalability, performance benchmarking, technical customer communication, automation scripting
Preferred skills
Software development, analytical skills, technical lead experience, external enterprise customer-facing experience
Technologies
Amazon Redshift, SQL, distributed databases
Responsibilities
Lead strategic data architecture and database design discussions with customers, drive workload analysis and performance troubleshooting, conduct POCs in competitive situations, influence engineering roadmap for scalability and usability, automate workload analysis mechanisms
Seniority
Senior, hands-on IC