Software Development Engineer II, AWS OpenSearch

AWS Utility Computing (UC) provides product innovations from foundational services such as Amazons Simple Storage Service (S3) and Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) to consistently released new product innovations that continue to set AWSs services and features apart in the industry. As a member of the UC organization youll support the development and management of Compute Database Storage Internet of Things (Iot) Platform and Productivity Apps services in AWS including support for customers who require specialized security solutions for their cloud services.

Imagine being a part of a small agile team where your ideas have the potential to reach millions within a short span of time. Picture working on technologies where every single team member is a critical voice in the decision-making process. Envision being able to leverage the resources of a Fortune-500 company within the atmosphere of a start-up.
AWS OpenSearch team is looking for Software Development Engineers for its Bangalore team who can help build search technologies for customers of all sizes. If you have a solid understanding of fundamental algorithms and are able to produce bulletproof code we are looking for you.

You are highly-motivated and thrive in an environment where problems are open-ended. You enjoy engaging in passionate discussions with smart people and letting the best ideas rise to the top. You see your mistakes as learning opportunities and continually look for ways to improve yourself your team and your products. You understand that not all solutions come easily and dont shy away from hard work to reach your goals.
We are looking for smart motivated Software Development Engineers who can help take the service to new heights. If you have the skills to building large-scale and high-performance services this is the job for you.

As an AWS OpenSearch engineer you will: - Design develop and support a world-class OpenSearch platform that manages thousands of search domains.

Contribute to both open source code and managed service platform.
Work with senior engineers in the team to deliver many components of the entire stack.
Focus on scalability performance service robustness and cost trade-offs. (Especially as they pertain to a highly-virtualised elastic cloud-based environment).
Apply scientific analysis and mathematical modelling techniques to predict measure and evaluate the consequences of designs and the ongoing success of our platform.
Continuously drive to explore improve enhance automate and optimize distributed systems and tools to best meet evolving business and market needs.
Work alongside a dedicated operations team to develop and support the smooth 24x7 operation of our worldwide service.



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- 3 years of non-internship professional software development experience
- 2 years of non-internship design or architecture (design patterns reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
- Experience programming with at least one software programming language

- 3 years of full software development life cycle including coding standards code reviews source control management build processes testing and operations experience
- Bachelors degree in computer science or equivalent

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