OpenSearch Control Plane Engineer — Serverless & Scalable

Amazon Web Services (AWS); Austin (TX); On-site; USD 144,000 - 194,000; Full time

Job summary

Amazon Development Center U.S., Inc. in Austin, TX is seeking passionate software engineers to design, develop, and operate components of a large-scale distributed control plane.

You will reason about failure modes, multi-tenant isolation, and blast-radius before writing code, while simplifying architectures and reducing configuration sprawl. The role emphasizes end-to-end ownership of operations, incident response, and cost-efficient maintenance.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of non-internship professional software development experience.
• 2+ years of non-internship design or architecture experience.
• 1+ years of software development engineer or related occupational experience.
• 1+ years of designing and developing large-scale, multi-tiered, multi-threaded, distributed software applications using C#, C++, Java, or Perl.
• 1+ years of Object Oriented Design experience.
• Bachelor's degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related field.
• Experience programming with at least one software programming language.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and operate components of a large-scale distributed control plane — reason about failure modes, multi-tenant isolation, and blast-radius before writing code.
• Look for opportunities to simplify — consolidate duplicate abstractions, remove dead code, reduce configuration sprawl, and challenge complexity that doesn't earn its keep.
• Treat operations as core engineering — own the systems you build end-to-end, participate fully in incident response and RCAs, and drive operational improvements that reduce cost and maintenance burden.
• Solve real problems in cluster orchestration, capacity provisioning, lifecycle workflows, multi-tenant infrastructure, query routing, and operational tooling.
• Use AI coding assistants and GenAI tools effectively across the software development lifecycle — from design and prototyping through coding, testing, code review, debugging, and operations — applying engineering judgment to validate AI-generated output against Amazon's correctness, security, and operational bar
• Write robust, efficient, and maintainable code in Java, Rust, Python, or Go.
• Partner with senior engineers to translate ambiguous requirements into concrete deliverables; prototype, test, and validate.
• Continually challenge what exists and explore what should change to better serve customers.

Skills

Software development

Object Oriented Design

Distributed systems

Programming languages

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/Engineering

Job description

Amazon Development Center U.S., Inc. in Austin, TX is seeking passionate software engineers to design, develop, and operate components of a large-scale distributed control plane.

You will reason about failure modes, multi-tenant isolation, and blast-radius before writing code, while simplifying architectures and reducing configuration sprawl. The role emphasizes end-to-end ownership of operations, incident response, and cost-efficient maintenance.