SDE-II, Amazon OpenSearch Service (AWS)

Amazon Inc.

Santa Clara (CA)

On-site

USD 165,000 - 224,000

Full time

14 days+
Application generator

Turn this role into an interview — a resume and cover letter built around what this employer wants.

Get past ATS filters

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance
Sign-on payments
401(k) matching
Paid time off
Parental leave
RSUs

Job summary

Amazon Development Center U.S., Inc. is seeking a Software Development Engineer to help build OpenSearch Migration Assistant, an AI-powered system to migrate workloads to OpenSearch at massive scale.

You will turn ambiguous customer problems into technical designs, prototype new approaches, and productionize reliable services used across AWS. You will work with Rust, Java, Python, Go and AWS services, tackling problems in AI agents, distributed systems, workload discovery and translation,

Qualifications

  • 3+ years of non-internship professional software development experience.
  • 2+ years designing or architecting reliable, scalable systems.
  • 1+ years of software development engineer or related experience.
  • 1+ years designing and developing large-scale, multi-tiered, multi-threaded, distributed software applications, tools, systems, and services 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.

Skills

3+ years of software development
2+ years design/architecture
1+ years SDE experience
C#
C++
Java
Perl
OO design
Experience with at least one language

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/Engineering/Math
Bachelor's degree in CS or equivalent

Tools

Rust
Java
Python
Go
AWS services

Job description

Job ID: 10498487 | Amazon Development Center U.S., Inc.

Amazon OpenSearch Service is a fully managed search and analytics service powering mission-critical search, observability, and generative AI workloads at massive scale. Hundreds of thousands of customers rely on OpenSearch for workloads ranging from application search and log analytics to vector and hybrid retrieval. We are building the next generation of OpenSearch Migration Assistant: an AI-powered system designed to make migrating complex search and analytics workloads to OpenSearch dramatically easier. Customers today run workloads across legacy OpenSearch and Elasticsearch deployments as well as other search, observability, and analytics platforms. Migration Assistant aims to understand these existing environments; determine how workloads, queries, and downstream applications should map to OpenSearch; automate the required transformations; orchestrate data and configuration migration; validate correctness and performance; and help customers safely cut over production traffic. As a Software Development Engineer on the OpenSearch team, you will help define and build this system from the ground up. You will turn ambiguous customer problems into technical designs, prototype new approaches, and productionize them as reliable services used across AWS. You will tackle challenging problems spanning AI agents, distributed systems, workload discovery and translation, cluster management, data movement and pipeline orchestration, query optimization, validation, and multi-tenant infrastructure. You will work with technologies including Rust, Java, Python, Go, and AWS services while building systems that must be secure, highly available, and capable of operating across AWS regions at massive scale. This is a greenfield opportunity on a newly formed team with significant ownership over both product and architecture. You will work at the intersection of generative AI, distributed systems, and search, helping redefine how customers move complex production workloads from legacy and third‑party systems to OpenSearch.

Basic Qualifications
  • 3+ years of non-internship professional software development experience
  • 2+ years of non-internship design or architecture (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
  • 1+ years of software development engineer or related occupational experience
  • 1+ years of designing and developing large-scale, multi-tiered, multi-threaded, embedded or distributed software applications, tools, systems, and services using: C#, C++, Java, or Perl experience
  • 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
Preferred Qualifications
  • 3+ years of full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations experience
  • Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent

Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status.

Los Angeles County applicants: Job duties for this position include: work safely and cooperatively with other employees, supervisors, and staff; adhere to standards of excellence despite stressful conditions; communicate effectively and respectfully with employees, supervisors, and staff to ensure exceptional customer service; and follow all federal, state, and local laws and Company policies. Criminal history may have a direct, adverse, and negative relationship with some of the material job duties of this position. These include the duties and responsibilities listed above, as well as the abilities to adhere to company policies, exercise sound judgment, effectively manage stress and work safely and respectfully with others, exhibit trustworthiness and professionalism, and safeguard business operations and the Company’s reputation. Pursuant to the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

Our inclusive culture empowers Amazonians to deliver the best results for our customers. If you have a disability and need a workplace accommodation or adjustment during the application and hiring process, including support for the interview or onboarding process, please visit https://amazon.jobs/content/en/how-we-hire/accommodations for more information. If the country/region you’re applying in isn’t listed, please contact your Recruiting Partner.

The base salary range for this position is listed below. Your Amazon package will include sign‑on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience, qualifications, and location. Amazon also offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans, EAP, Mental Health Support, Medical Advice Line, Flexible Spending Accounts, Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage), 401(k) matching, paid time off, and parental leave. Learn more about our benefits at https://amazon.jobs/en/benefits.

USA, CA, Santa Clara - 165,200.00 - 223,600.00 USD annually

Get your free, confidential resume review.

or drag and drop your file here.

Similar jobs

Similar jobs worth comparing

SDE-II, Amazon OpenSearch Service
SDE-II, Amazon OpenSearch Service

Amazon • Santa Clara (CA)

On-site
USD 165,000 - 224,000
Health insurance
RSUs
401(k) matching
+1
Software Development Engineer , OpenSearch AI Search Team (AWS)
Software Development Engineer , OpenSearch AI Search Team (AWS)

Amazon • Bellevue (WA)

On-site
USD 168,000 - 227,000
Health insurance
RSUs
401(k) matching
+2
Software Development Engineer, AWS OpenSearch
Software Development Engineer, AWS OpenSearch

Amazon Web Services (AWS) • Austin (TX)

On-site
USD 144,000 - 194,000
Software Development Engineer , OpenSearch AI Search Team
Software Development Engineer , OpenSearch AI Search Team

Amazon • Bellevue (WA)

On-site
USD 168,000 - 227,000
RSUs
Health insurance
401(k) matching
+1
SDE, AWS OpenSearch Service, Opensearch
SDE, AWS OpenSearch Service, Opensearch

Amazon Inc. • Santa Clara (CA)

On-site
USD 165,000 - 224,000
Health insurance
RSUs
Paid time off
Software Development Engineer - AWS OpenSearch, OpenSearch Dashboards
Software Development Engineer - AWS OpenSearch, OpenSearch Dashboards

Amazon • Bellevue (WA)

On-site
USD 144,000 - 194,000
RSUs
Health insurance
401(k) matching
Software Development Engineer , OpenSearch AI Search Team
Software Development Engineer , OpenSearch AI Search Team

Amazon Web Services (AWS) • Bellevue (WA)

On-site
USD 168,000 - 227,000
Health insurance
RSUs
401(k) matching
+2
Software Development Engineer - AWS OpenSearch, OpenSearch Dashboards
Software Development Engineer - AWS OpenSearch, OpenSearch Dashboards

Amazon Web Services (AWS) • Bellevue (WA)

On-site
USD 144,000 - 194,000
Software Development Engineer, AWS OpenSearch Service
Software Development Engineer, AWS OpenSearch Service

Amazon • Austin (TX)

On-site
USD 143,700 - 194,400
Health insurance
401(k) matching
Paid time off
Senior Software Development Engineer , AWS OpenSearch Intelligent Search Team
Senior Software Development Engineer , AWS OpenSearch Intelligent Search Team

Amazon • Bellevue (WA)

On-site
USD 168,000 - 227,000