Amazon
Senior SDE, OpenSearch, AWS OpenSearch
$168K–$227K
Austin, TX · Senior · Full-time · Posted Oct 22, 2026
- Experience
- 5+ years for each of the three stated software development, programming, and design/architecture experience criteria; experience as a mentor, tech lead, or engineering team lead.
- Education
- Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent.
About the job
Develop and support security features for the Amazon OpenSearch service, helping customers secure data and meet security requirements at cloud scale.
What you'll do
- Design, develop, and support security for the OpenSearch platform and build technologies that strengthen customers’ security posture.
- Work on the core AWS OpenSearch service, contribute to open source, and support plugin teams with security requirements for logging, patching, and vulnerability detection.
- Help set the service’s vision and objectives in response to customer needs and market opportunities.
What they ask for
- 5+ years of non-internship professional software development experience.
- 5+ years programming in 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.
- Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent.
Pay
USD 168,100.00 - 227,400.00 annually (base salary)
Tools
OpenSearch, Apache Lucene, AWS
AI focus
The posting describes OpenSearch’s direction as an intelligent retrieval engine for search, analytics, and AI-powered workloads; the role may involve machine learning.
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