Amazon
Database Engineer, Amazon Redshift
$125K–$194K
Redmond, WA +1 · Full-time · Posted Jun 17, 2026
- Location
- Redmond, WA
East Palo Alto, CA - Experience
- 5+ years of non-internship professional software development experience.
- Education
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, a related technical field or equivalent.
About the job
Supports Amazon Redshift customers with database architecture, workload analysis, performance optimization, troubleshooting, and technical guidance while influencing product engineering priorities.
What you'll do
- Lead customer discussions on data architecture and database design; conduct proofs of concept in competitive situations.
- Oversee workload analysis, performance benchmarking, and troubleshooting in customer environments.
- Communicate technical topics to customers, influence the engineering roadmap, and automate workload analysis tasks.
What they ask for
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, a related technical field, or equivalent.
- Experience writing complex, highly optimized SQL queries across large datasets.
- Knowledge of system architecture, scalability, reliability, and performance in a database environment.
- Experience with large-scale data analytics and data warehousing.
Nice to have
- Software development experience, or experience demonstrating strong analytical skills, attention to detail, and effective communication.
- Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, mathematics or equivalent, or experience in an external enterprise customer-facing technical lead role.
Pay
USD 143,500.00 - 194,200.00 annually (base salary); USD 124,700.00 - 168,800.00 annually (base salary)
Tools
Amazon Redshift, SQL
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