Software Development Engineer, AWS OpenSearch

Amazon OpenSearch Service is a fully managed service that makes it easy to deploy operate and scale OpenSearch clusters for log analytics full-text search application monitoring and more. As part of AWS we serve hundreds of thousands of customers who rely on OpenSearch to power mission-critical search and observability workloads at scale.

As a Software Development Engineer on the OpenSearch team you will help solve a variety of technical challenges in distributed systems data ingestion and search infrastructure. You will play an active role in translating business and functional requirements into concrete deliverables and build quick prototypes or proofs of concept in partnership with other technology leaders within the team. You will help invent new features design develop and deploy reliable distributed services that operate at massive scale across all AWS regions.

You will work with a variety of core languages and technologies including Rust Java Python Golang and AWS-native services. You will tackle challenging problems in areas such as cluster management data pipeline orchestration query optimization and multi-tenant infrastructure all while ensuring high availability and security for our customers.

You should be comfortable with a degree of ambiguity thats higher than most projects and relish the idea of solving problems that span the full stack from control plane APIs to data plane performance. Along the way we guarantee that youll learn a ton have fun and make a positive impact on many customers.

This is a greenfield opportunity on a newly formed high-performing AI-led team. A true Think Big initiative from the ground up that will accelerate your career development.


Key job responsibilities
* Design develop and support high throughput highly available distributed multi-tenant cloud native systems.
* Produce bullet-proof code that is robust efficient and maintainable; our primary languages are Java and Rust.
* Leading development and maintenance of key system features for Amazon OpenSearch Service
* Designing and building scalable fault-tolerant distributed systems
* Work on challenging problems in areas such as data ingestion auto-scaling data storage search optimization and query optimization security machine learning and more.
* Identify and advocate for operational improvements reducing maintenance and development cost
* Join a great group of motivated top-notch people and work with them to solve challenging problems in a fun collaborative environment
Internal job description
Basic qualifications
* Working with other team members to investigate design approaches prototype solutions and validate them through testing
* Working in an Agile/Scrum environment to deliver high quality software in a fast paced environment.


- 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

Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status disability or other legally protected status.

Los Angeles County applicants: Job duties for this position include: work safely and cooperatively with other employees supervisors and staff; adhere to standards of excellence despite stressful conditions; communicate effectively and respectfully with employees supervisors and staff to ensure exceptional customer service; and follow all federal state and local laws and Company policies. Criminal history may have a direct adverse and negative relationship with some of the material job duties of this position. These include the duties and responsibilities listed above as well as the abilities to adhere to company policies exercise sound judgment effectively manage stress and work safely and respectfully with others exhibit trustworthiness and professionalism and safeguard business operations and the Companys reputation. Pursuant to the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

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The base salary range for this position is listed below. Your Amazon package will include sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience qualifications and location. Amazon also offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance (medical dental vision prescription Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans EAP Mental Health Support Medical Advice Line Flexible Spending Accounts Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage) 401(k) matching paid time off and parental leave. Learn more about our benefits at CA Santa Clara - 165200.00 - 223600.00 USD annually