AWS OpenSearch SDE: Distributed Systems & Cloud Scale

Amazon Inc.; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 144,000 - 194,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

RSUs

Sign-on payments

401(k) matching

Paid time off

Parental leave

Job summary

Amazon Inc. is seeking a Software Development Engineer for the OpenSearch team in Austin, TX. You will design, develop, and operate highly scalable, distributed systems and contribute to features across the OpenSearch Service stack.

You will work with Java, Rust, Python, and Go to build robust, efficient systems. The role emphasizes ownership, collaboration, and delivering in an Agile environment.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of non-internship professional software development experience.
• 2+ years of non-internship design or architecture experience on new or existing systems.
• Experience programming with at least one software programming language (e.g., Java, Rust, Python, Go).

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
• 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.

Skills

Software development

System design

Programming languages

Education

Bachelor's degree in computer science

Tools

Java

Rust

Python

Golang

Job description

Amazon Inc. is seeking a Software Development Engineer for the OpenSearch team in Austin, TX. You will design, develop, and operate highly scalable, distributed systems and contribute to features across the OpenSearch Service stack.

You will work with Java, Rust, Python, and Go to build robust, efficient systems. The role emphasizes ownership, collaboration, and delivering in an Agile environment.