Software Engineer, OpenSearch Distributed Systems

Amazon Web Services (AWS); Austin (TX); On-site; USD 144,000 - 194,000; Full time

Job summary

Amazon Development Center U.S., Inc. in Austin, TX is seeking a Software Development Engineer to design, develop, and support high-throughput, distributed OpenSearch services. You will work across data ingestion, scaling, storage, and query optimization on a multi-tenant cloud platform.

You will craft robust code in Java and Rust, contribute to architecture decisions, and help build scalable, secure services across AWS regions. This role offers growth in a fast-paced, AI-forward team environment.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of non-internship professional software development experience.
• 2+ years of non-internship design or architecture of systems experience.
• Experience programming with at least one software programming language.

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.

Skills

Software development

Architecture design

Programming languages

Education

Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent

Tools

Java

Rust

Python

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Job description

Amazon Development Center U.S., Inc. in Austin, TX is seeking a Software Development Engineer to design, develop, and support high-throughput, distributed OpenSearch services. You will work across data ingestion, scaling, storage, and query optimization on a multi-tenant cloud platform.

You will craft robust code in Java and Rust, contribute to architecture decisions, and help build scalable, secure services across AWS regions. This role offers growth in a fast-paced, AI-forward team environment.