Senior OpenSearch Cloud Engineer — Serverless, Scale & AI

Amazon Web Services (AWS); Austin (TX); On-site; USD 168,000 - 227,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

401(k) matching

paid time off

parental leave

Job summary

Amazon Development Center U.S., Inc. in Austin, TX seeks a senior software engineer to drive architecture and operations for the OpenSearch control plane.

You will own multi-region orchestration, lifecycle automation, and reliability across vast data workloads, shaping a scalable, serverless managed service. The role emphasizes mentoring engineers, driving design simplification, leading incident response, and collaborating with upstream projects like OpenSearch and Lucene to deliver secure,

Qualifications

• 5+ years of professional software development experience.
• 5+ years programming in at least one language.
• 5+ years leading design or architecture of systems.
• Experience mentoring or leading an engineering team.

Responsibilities

• Drive architectural decisions in a large-scale distributed system—multi-region orchestration, multi-tenant control surfaces, lifecycle automation, scale-to-zero, regional failure isolation, and graceful degradation under partial outage.
• Invent and Simplify—drive simplification of legacy designs; mentor others on simplifying-by-design; reduce accidental complexity across surfaces.
• Treat operations as core engineering—own the systems end-to-end; lead incident response and RCAs with customer-first urgency; drive operational improvements.
• Lead design and development of services across cluster management, capacity orchestration, scaling policies, query routing, security, and machine learning.
• Build and apply AI fluency across the software development lifecycle; decompose problems for AI assistance and validate AI output.
• Mentor and grow engineers; raise the bar for software development, operational excellence, and security.
• Set technical direction and collaborate with the OpenSearch organization to align solutions with customer needs.
• Contribute upstream to OpenSearch and Apache Lucene.

Skills

Software development

Programming languages

System design

Mentorship

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS

Job description

Amazon Development Center U.S., Inc. in Austin, TX seeks a senior software engineer to drive architecture and operations for the OpenSearch control plane.

You will own multi-region orchestration, lifecycle automation, and reliability across vast data workloads, shaping a scalable, serverless managed service. The role emphasizes mentoring engineers, driving design simplification, leading incident response, and collaborating with upstream projects like OpenSearch and Lucene to deliver secure,