Drimva

Amazon

Senior SDE, OpenSearch, AWS OpenSearch

$193K–$262K

Santa Clara, CA · Senior · Full-time · Posted Oct 26, 2026

Experience
5+ years in each of the three specified software development, programming, and system design/architecture areas; experience as a mentor, tech lead, or engineering team lead.

About the job

Develop and support security features for the AWS OpenSearch service and its open-source platform, helping customers secure and manage access to data at cloud scale.

What you'll do

  • Design, develop, and support security for the OpenSearch platform and build technologies that strengthen customer security in AWS.
  • Contribute to the core AWS OpenSearch service and open source; address challenges including data storage, query optimization, JVM performance, security, and machine learning.
  • Support plugin teams with host logging, patching, and vulnerability-detection security requirements.

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 leader of an engineering team.

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

193,300.00 - 261,500.00 USD annually (base salary)

Tools

OpenSearch, Apache Lucene, JVM

AI focus

The posting describes OpenSearch's direction toward an intelligent retrieval engine for AI-powered workloads, and lists machine learning among possible engineering problem areas; the role's specific AI duties are not stated.

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First seen Oct 27, 2026 · Last verified Nov 5, 2026 (UTC)