Senior SDE, OpenSearch, AWS OpenSearch

What you'll do

• Design, develop, and support security for the OpenSearch platform; build technologies that strengthen customer security posture.
• Work on core AWS OpenSearch and contribute to open source, including complex systems challenges such as storage, query optimization, JVM performance, security, and machine learning.
• Support plugin teams with security requirements for host logging, patching, and vulnerability detection; help shape service objectives around customer needs.

What they ask for

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

Nice to have

• 5+ years of full software development life cycle experience, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations.
• Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent.

Pay

USD 193,300.00 - 261,500.00 annually (base salary); USD 168,100.00 - 227,400.00 annually (base salary)

Tools

OpenSearch, Apache Lucene, JVM

AI focus

The posting mentions machine learning and describes OpenSearch’s broader direction toward an intelligent retrieval engine for AI-powered workloads; the role’s specific AI work is not detailed.