OpenSearch & Lucene Core Engineer

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

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

RSUs

401(k) matching

Paid time off

Parental leave

Job summary

Amazon in Washington (Bellevue) seeks a Software Development Engineer for OpenSearch core; you will contribute to Lucene integration, OpenSearch features, and serverless scaling. You will mentor peers and drive design across distributed components, collaborating with AWS teams and the open source community.

The role emphasizes robust, scalable code in Java, C/C++, and Python, plus leadership in architectural decisions and best practices for high-performance search systems.

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 with an understanding of how they work and why.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop and maintain software by collaborating with the open source community and internal AWS stakeholders on Apache Lucene and OpenSearch.
• Produce bullet-proof code that is robust, efficient and maintainable; our primary languages are Java, C/C++, and Python.
• Maintain effective communication and collaboration with partner teams, both local and remote, in completing interdependent work items.
• Engage with developers and management in seeing our open source release operationalized appropriately with monitoring, alerting, testing.

Skills

Java

C/C++

Python

Distributed systems

Mentor/Tech lead

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/Engineering

Master's degree

Tools

Lucene

Job description

Amazon in Washington (Bellevue) seeks a Software Development Engineer for OpenSearch core; you will contribute to Lucene integration, OpenSearch features, and serverless scaling. You will mentor peers and drive design across distributed components, collaborating with AWS teams and the open source community.

The role emphasizes robust, scalable code in Java, C/C++, and Python, plus leadership in architectural decisions and best practices for high-performance search systems.