Amazon Software Dev Engineer - High-Performance Query Processing 

United States, California, East Palo Alto 

721668899

Key job responsibilities
• Design and implement state-of-the-art distributed data processing algorithms for the parallel execution query engine.
• Identify opportunities for performance improvement by in-depth analysis of the query plan and query execution states.
• Deploy and monitor new features in a highly available and fault tolerant system running in the cloud.
A day in the life
Query Processing team delivers extreme performance by uniquely combining novel techniques for distributed query planning, code generation, query compilation, query scheduling, resource-planning, and superscalar query execution with optimized data encodings accessed with high performance SIMD kernels, and hardware conscious algorithms. We also work closely with AWS platform teams in shaping requirements for next generation platforms to run database/analytics applications.East Palo Alto, CA, USA

• Currently enrolled in or completed a Bachelor’s or Master’s Degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Data Science, Electrical Engineering, or majors relating to these fields
• To qualify, applicants should have earned a Bachelor’s or Master’s degree between May 2023 to September 2024. Possible start dates for this role are between May 2024 to October 2024.
• Programming experience with C or C++
• Internship, project, or academic experience in at least one of the areas: query optimization, job scheduling, resource management, query execution, data compression technologies, information theory, GPUs, or ML.

• PhD Degree with focus on Systems / Information Theory, Databases, Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or related
• Strong knowledge of Computer Science fundamentals in object-oriented design, data structures, algorithm design, problem solving, and complexity analysis
• Strong software development skills