Sr. Performance Engineer, Redshift Performance Engineering

The Amazon Redshift Performance Engineering team is seeking an experienced performance engineer passionate about database and distributed systems performance. As a Sr. Performance Engineer, you will:

• Help make the fastest data warehouse even faster
• Identify ways to improve performance and set direction for other engineering teams
• Tackle challenging performance problems from application level to code and hardware level
• Diagnose performance bottlenecks using application logs, source code, profiling information, and OS/system metrics
• Run experiments and benchmarks to understand complex distributed system performance
• Isolate and prioritize performance issues with the biggest customer impact
• Present results and recommendations clearly to development teams
• Read, modify, and optimize C++ code to test performance hypotheses

Key responsibilities include:

• Diagnosing any performance bottleneck
• Diving deep into various levels of the system to root cause issues
• Running experiments and benchmarks
• Prioritizing impactful performance improvements
• Clearly presenting findings to development teams
• Working with C++ code for optimization

Join our team to make significant contributions to one of the fastest data warehouse systems in the industry!