Senior OpenSearch Platform Engineer

Lowes; Charlotte (NC); On-site; USD 110,000 - 165,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

401k with match

Employee Stock Purchase Plan

Tuition-Free Education

Maternity/Parental Leave

Job summary

Lowe’s is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to build and enhance the core Search Platform powering enterprise search across digital and store channels. You will design, develop, and operate OpenSearch/Elasticsearch solutions, cloud-native services, and batch/near real-time data ingestion pipelines to improve scalability, reliability, and performance.

The role emphasizes architecture leadership, cross-functional collaboration, and mentoring engineers within a Fortune 50 company known for its

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, CIS, or related field or equivalent years of experience in lieu of education requirement.
• 5 years of experience in software development or a related field.
• 4 years in frontend technologies, middleware, database technologies, or DevOps.
• 4 years in SDLC with iterative Agile development.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain scalable OpenSearch/Elasticsearch-based search platform capabilities.
• Build cloud-native services and APIs supporting search functionality and data pipelines.
• Improve platform performance, reliability, and modernization initiatives.
• Ingest, transform, validate, and publish enterprise data for search platform consumers.
• Implement monitoring, logging, automation, and CI/CD practices; troubleshoot production issues.
• Mentor engineers and participate in architecture reviews; collaborate across Agile teams.

Skills

OpenSearch/Elasticsearch

Python

Java

Data ingestion pipelines

Google Cloud Platform

REST APIs / microservices

CI/CD

Git

Monitoring & observability

Troubleshooting & collaboration

Education

Bachelor’s degree in computer science or CIS

Master’s degree in CS or CIS

Tools

Terraform

Prometheus

Grafana

Dataflow

Dataproc

Pub/Sub

BigQuery

Job description

Lowe’s is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to build and enhance the core Search Platform powering enterprise search across digital and store channels. You will design, develop, and operate OpenSearch/Elasticsearch solutions, cloud-native services, and batch/near real-time data ingestion pipelines to improve scalability, reliability, and performance.

The role emphasizes architecture leadership, cross-functional collaboration, and mentoring engineers within a Fortune 50 company known for its