Software Development Engineer , AWS OpenSearch Intelligent Search Team

Are you interested in building the next generation of a cloud-scale search and analytics platform Do you want to revolutionize the way people run search analytics and AI-powered workloads on vast volumes of data in the cloud Do you want to have direct and immediate impact on a large number of AWS users Do you want to be part of a fast-growing AWS service and work in a fast-paced startup-style environment

Amazon OpenSearch Service makes it easy to deploy operate and scale OpenSearch for log analytics application monitoring full-text search vector search and more. It is a fully managed service that delivers OpenSearchs easy-to-use APIs and real-time capabilities along with predictable performance and seamless scalability for production workloads.

The Amazon OpenSearch Service team designs develops and operates software that allows customers to index search and analyze documents at scale in a secure responsive and reliable environment. The team is tackling tough data search and analytics problems. As we expand at a tremendous rate we are looking for innovative engineers with a passion for AI search analytics and distributed systems to join the team:

As a Senior Software Development Engineer on the Amazon OpenSearch Service team you will:
- Design develop and support a world-class search platform serving customers of all sizes
- Produce robust efficient and maintainable code; our primary languages are Java and Python
- Work on OpenSearch open-source software with opportunities to contribute upstream
- Work on challenging problems in distributed systems AI data storage query optimization high availability and security.
- Lead architecture and design decisions and mentor other engineers on the team
- Continually challenge what exists and explore what should be changed to best meet evolving customer needs
- Drive algorithm and architecture design execute and deliver results
- Invent the future of search and analytics in the cloud

- 5 years of non-internship professional software development experience
- 5 years of programming with at least one software programming language experience
- 5 years of leading design or architecture (design patterns reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
- Experience as a mentor tech lead or leading an engineering team

- 5 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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