OpenSearch Platform Engineer - Distributed Systems

Amazon; Santa Clara (CA); On-site; USD 165,000 - 224,000; Full time

Job summary

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 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

Qualifications

• 3+ years of non‑internship professional software development experience.
• 2+ years of non‑internship design or architecture experience for new and existing systems.
• Experience programming with at least one software programming language.

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 CS or equivalent

Job description

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 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