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# Database Engineer, Amazon Redshift

- **Company:** Amazon.com, Inc.
- **Location:** East Palo Alto, CA, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $143,500.0 - $194,200.0
- **Contract:** Internship / Graduate position
- **Skills:** Big Data, Databases, Data Architecture, Data Warehousing, Relational Databases, Database Design, Distributed Data Store, Software Engineering, SQL Databases, Systems Architecture, Scripting, Information Technology, Amazon Redshift
- **Published:** November 7, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.juju.com/job/1_amazon6-10451806

## About the Role

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, a related technical field or equivalent

 - 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
Preferred Qualifications

 - Experience in software development, or experience that includes strong analytical skills, attention to detail, and effective communication abilities
 - Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, mathematics or equivalent, or experience in external enterprise customer-facing role as a technical lead, with strong oral and written communication skills, presenting to both large and small audiences

## Description

We are looking for senior database engineers that are passionate about data warehousing, and love to work with customers to help them with database design, usage patterns and performance.
We expect candidates to be able to:

 - Demonstrate in-depth knowledge of database or data warehouse systems internals including relational database design and distributed databases/MPP architectures
 - Lead strategic data architecture & database design discussions with customers
 - Drive and oversee workload analysis, performance benchmarking and troubleshooting efforts with customers in their environments
 - Clearly communicate deep technical topics to customers
 - Influence the engineering team roadmap towards building a product that is scalable, easy to use and build on, and addresses customer needs
 - Conduct POC's with customers in competitive situations
 - Leverage good coding/scripting skills to automate tasks and improve workload analysis mechanisms
About the team, Los Angeles County applicants: Job duties for this position include: work safely and cooperatively with other employees, supervisors, and staff; adhere to standards of excellence despite stressful conditions; communicate effectively and respectfully with employees, supervisors, and staff to ensure exceptional customer service; and follow all federal, state, and local laws and Company policies.
Criminal history may have a direct, adverse, and negative relationship with some of the material job duties of this position.
These include the duties and responsibilities listed above, as well as the abilities to adhere to company policies, exercise sound judgment, effectively manage stress and work safely and respectfully with others, exhibit trustworthiness and professionalism, and safeguard business operations and the Company's reputation.
Pursuant to the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.
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