Financial Engineer with SQL - Palo Alto, CA, United States - Amazon

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Performance Engineer, Redshift Performance Engineering

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| Amazon Development Center U.The Amazon Redshift Performance Engineering team is looking for an experienced performance engineer who is passionate about database and distributed systems performance. Join our team and help us make the fastest data warehouse even faster

As part of the Redshift Performance Engineering team, you will use your experience and skills to identify ways to improve performance and help set the direction and priorities of other engineering teams.

You will tackle some of the most challenging performance problems and get involved in performance optimization from the application level down to the code and hardware level.

Performance Engineer at Amazon Redshift needs to be able to diagnose any performance bottleneck.

When diagnosing a performance issue, they need to be able to start with application logs, and dive deeper into the source code, profiling information, and OS and system metrics to RCA performance issues.

They need to be able to run experiments and benchmarks to understand the performance of a complex distributed system and isolate performance issues.

They also need to have strong judgement and experience to know what performance issues have the biggest impact to our customers.

They need to be comfortable reading, modifying, and optimizing C++ code to test performance hypotheses.
3 years experience as a performance engineer or as a software developer working on performance-oriented projects in a low-level language such as C or C++
Solid CS fundamentals (data structures; Experience as a tech lead on a performance engineering or software development team
Experience working with a SQL database

Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status.

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Dependent on the position offered, equity, sign-on payments, and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package, in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits.

Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status.

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