Amazon
Software Development Engineer, AWS OpenSearch
$144K–$194K
Austin, TX · Full-time · Posted Oct 14, 2026
- Experience
- 3+ years of non-internship professional software development; 2+ years of non-internship design or architecture experience; preferred: 3+ years of full software development life cycle experience.
- Education
- Preferred: Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent.
About the job
Develop and operate reliable, highly available distributed systems and features for Amazon OpenSearch Service at scale.
What you'll do
- Design, develop, and support high-throughput, highly available, cloud-native distributed systems.
- Build and maintain OpenSearch features, including work on data ingestion, scaling, storage, search and query optimization, and security.
- Prototype and validate solutions, deliver software in an Agile/Scrum environment, and identify operational improvements.
What they ask for
- 3+ years of non-internship professional software development experience
- 2+ years of non-internship experience in design or architecture of new and existing systems, including design patterns, reliability, and scaling
- Experience programming with at least one software programming language
Nice to have
- 3+ years of full software development life cycle experience
- Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent
Pay
143,700.00 USD - 194,400.00 USD annually (base salary)
Tools
Rust, Java, Python, Golang, AWS-native services
AI focus
The role is on an AI-forward team; machine learning is among the problem areas, but no specific AI duties are stated.
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