Sr. Software Dev Engineer, Redshift Distributed Systems

East Palo Alto, CA, United States • Posted June 03, 2026

Job Type: Full-time
Location: East Palo Alto, CA
Posted: June 03, 2026
Category: other-general
Application Deadline: June 08, 2026

Role Description

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...

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