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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