OpenSearch Core Engineer: Lucene, Vector Search & Scale

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

Job summary

Amazon Development Center U.S., Inc. in Bellevue, WA seeks a Software Engineer to expand OpenSearch and Lucene capabilities and collaborate with the open source community and AWS teams.

You will design, develop and maintain software in Java, C/C++, and Python, mentor peers, and contribute to Lucene/OpenSearch while working on large-scale distributed systems. This is a community-driven effort with impact beyond AWS.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of non-internship professional software development experience.
• 5+ years of programming with at least one software programming language.
• 5+ years of leading design or architecture of new and existing systems.
• Experience as a mentor, tech lead or leading an engineering team.
• Experience building search applications on OpenSearch, Solr, Cassandra, MongoDB, or other similar platforms.
• A role model mentor and technical lead with a strong ability to break down work and grow others.
• Experience working with Apache Lucene or other inverted index storage libraries.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop and maintain software by collaborating with the open source community and internal AWS stakeholders on Apache Lucene and OpenSearch.
• Have support from AWS in contributing to Apache Lucene and OpenSearch.
• Produce bullet-proof code in Java, C/C++, and Python.
• Exercise expertise in large scale distributed system design and engineering best practices.
• Follow and set high quality standards for contributions.
• Maintain effective communication with partner teams, both local and remote.
• Work with multiple teams across search service organization to implement best practices.
• Advocate for open source inside and outside AWS.
• Engage with developers and management to release operations with monitoring, testing.

Skills

Java

C/C++

Python

OpenSearch/Lucene

Mentoring

Distributed systems

Technical leadership

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/Engineering/Math

Master's degree in CS

Tools

Apache Lucene

OpenSearch

Git / source control

Job description

Amazon Development Center U.S., Inc. in Bellevue, WA seeks a Software Engineer to expand OpenSearch and Lucene capabilities and collaborate with the open source community and AWS teams.

You will design, develop and maintain software in Java, C/C++, and Python, mentor peers, and contribute to Lucene/OpenSearch while working on large-scale distributed systems. This is a community-driven effort with impact beyond AWS.