Software Development Engineer, AWS OpenSearch

Amazon Inc.; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 144,000 - 194,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

RSUs

Sign-on payments

401(k) matching

Paid time off

Parental leave

Job summary

Amazon Inc. is seeking a Software Development Engineer for the OpenSearch team in Austin, TX. You will design, develop, and operate highly scalable, distributed systems and contribute to features across the OpenSearch Service stack.

You will work with Java, Rust, Python, and Go to build robust, efficient systems. The role emphasizes ownership, collaboration, and delivering in an Agile environment.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of non-internship professional software development experience.
• 2+ years of non-internship design or architecture experience on new or existing systems.
• Experience programming with at least one software programming language (e.g., Java, Rust, Python, Go).

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 computer science

Tools

Java

Rust

Python

Golang

Job description

Software Development Engineer, AWS OpenSearch

Job ID: 10502946 | Amazon Development Center U.S., Inc.

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 part of AWS, we serve hundreds of thousands of customers who rely on OpenSearch to power mission-critical search and observability workloads at scale.

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 prototypes or proofs of concept in partnership with other technology leaders within the team. You will help invent new features, design, develop, and deploy reliable distributed services that operate at massive scale across all AWS regions.

You will work with a variety of core languages and technologies including Rust, Java, Python, Golang, and AWS-native services. You will tackle challenging problems in areas such as cluster management, data pipeline orchestration, query optimization, and multi-tenant infrastructure — all while ensuring high availability and security for our customers.

You should be comfortable with a degree of ambiguity that's higher than most projects and relish the idea of solving problems that span the full stack — from control plane APIs to data plane performance. Along the way, we guarantee that you'll learn a ton, have fun, and make a positive impact on many customers.

This is an opportunity on a newly formed, high-performing, AI-forward team.

Key job 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.

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 experienceExperience 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

Compensation and Benefits

USA, TX, Austin - 143,700.00 - 194,400.00 USD annually

The base salary range for this position is 143,700.00 - 194,400.00 USD annually. 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.

Equal Opportunity & Inclusion

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

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