Senior OpenSearch Platform Engineer — Serverless & AI-Ready

Amazon Web Services (AWS); Austin (TX); On-site; USD 168,100 - 227,400; 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 is seeking a senior software engineer to help drive the OpenSearch control plane at scale. You will design multi-region orchestration, manage lifecycle automation, and partner with upstream communities.

The role emphasizes end-to-end ownership, incident response, and mentoring, with opportunities to influence reliability, performance, and security across a cloud service used by hundreds of thousands of customers.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of non-internship professional software development experience.
• 5+ years of programming with at least one software programming language experience.
• 5+ years of leading design or architecture (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience.
• Experience as a mentor, tech lead or leading an engineering team.

Responsibilities

• Drive architectural decisions in a large-scale distributed system - multi-region orchestration workflows, multi-tenant control surfaces, lifecycle automation, scale-to-zero, regional failure isolation, and graceful degradation under partial outage.
• Invent and Simplify in equal measure - drive simplification of legacy designs as actively as you propose new ones; identify and eliminate accidental complexity across the team's surfaces; mentor others on simplifying-by-design
• Treat operations as core engineering - own the systems you build end-to-end, lead incident response and RCAs with customer-first urgency, and drive operational improvements that compound across the team
• Lead design and development of complex 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, ground prompts in relevant context, validate AI-generated output, and use AI to accelerate both code and beyond-code work
• Mentor and grow engineers across the team; raise the bar for software development, operational excellence, and security
• Set technical direction and partner with the broader OpenSearch organization to align solutions with customer needs and market opportunities
• Contribute upstream to OpenSearch and Apache Lucene

Skills

Software development

Programming

Leadership

Mentoring

Education

Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent

Tools

Java

Rust

Python

Go

Job description

Amazon Development Center U.S., Inc. in Austin, TX is seeking a senior software engineer to help drive the OpenSearch control plane at scale. You will design multi-region orchestration, manage lifecycle automation, and partner with upstream communities.

The role emphasizes end-to-end ownership, incident response, and mentoring, with opportunities to influence reliability, performance, and security across a cloud service used by hundreds of thousands of customers.