# Principal Software Engineer, AWS Distributed SQL

AWS Databases is hiring Principal/Sr Principal Engineers to lead query processing for two of its key database engines. Amazon Redshift is a petabyte-scale cloud data warehouse used by tens of thousands of customers. Amazon Aurora DSQL is a serverless, distributed SQL database built for active-active availability and virtually unlimited scale. Both engines depend on the same discipline: turning SQL into well-optimized plans and running them fast at massive scale. Depending on your depth and interests, you'll join one of three teams: Redshift Query Optimization, the Redshift Execution Engine, or Aurora DSQL Query Processing. Key job responsibilities - Set and execute a multi-year technical strategy for query optimization and execution that improves price-performance against Databricks, Snowflake, Google BigQuery, and other cloud databases. - Own core query processing architecture, including parsing and semantic analysis, query rewriting, cost-based planning, statistics and cardinality estimation, plan caching, and physical execution. - Build high-performance execution engines (vectorized and pipelined operators, memory management, code generation, massively parallel and distributed e

- **Id**: 4100692
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/amazon-principal-software-engineer-aws-distributed-sql>
- **Role**: Data Science
- **Role family**: Data Science
- **Seniority**: lead
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Seattle, United States, New York, United States, Palo Alto, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 10
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: yes
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-11T21:39:47Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-11
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-11T21:39:47Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 0
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 5718
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Benefits**: Health insurance, Parental leave, Restricted stock units
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Advertising, Cloud Platforms (IaaS & PaaS), Logistics, Streaming & OTT Platforms

## Company

- **Id**: 19
- **Name**: Amazon
- **Domain**: amazon.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/amazon>
- **Size band**: 5000+
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Career site

### Truth index

- **Grade**: B
- **Score**: 78
- **Open postings**: 4525
- **Ghost share**: 0
- **Stale share**: 0.887
- **Repost share**: 0.003
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 30
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-11T05:49:22Z

## Salary

- **Min**: 230100
- **Max**: 311200
- **Currency**: USD
- **Period**: year
- **Usd annual**: 311200

## Technologies

- **Amazon Aurora** — Optional: no
- **Amazon Redshift** — Optional: no
- **AWS** — Optional: no
- **C++** — Optional: no
- **Databricks** — Optional: no
- **Google BigQuery** — Optional: no
- **Java** — Optional: no
- **Rust** — Optional: no
- **Snowflake** — Optional: no
- **SQL** — Optional: no
- **PostgreSQL** — Optional: yes

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 0

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 10
- **Management years min**: 10
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

### Education

- **Level**: master
- **Optional**: yes

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-11T21:39:47Z

## Visa

- Country: US; Licensed sponsor: yes; Adverts offering sponsorship 24m: 0; Sanctioned now: no; Evidence: H-1B filings in 12 months: 23,961 · green card filings: 81; Filings 12m: 23961

## Liveness

- **Score**: 86
- **Band**: hot
- **Label**: Hiring now
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.86
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 0
- **Expected fill days**: 31
- **Reasons**: conf:1, win:early, comp:brand
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-11T23:01:13Z

## Pay

- **Stated usd annual**: 311200
- **Is top pay**: yes

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