Amazon
Software Development Engineer, AWS OpenSearch
$144K–$194K
Austin, TX · Full-time · Posted Aug 15, 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, high-throughput distributed systems and features for Amazon OpenSearch Service across AWS regions.
What you'll do
- Design, develop, and support highly available, scalable, multi-tenant cloud-native systems.
- Build and maintain OpenSearch features involving areas such as data ingestion, cluster management, storage, and query optimization.
- Prototype and validate design approaches, 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 - 194,400.00 USD annually (base salary)
Tools
Rust, Java, Python, Golang, AWS-native services
AI focus
The posting describes the team as AI-forward and mentions machine learning among the problem areas, but does not specify particular AI responsibilities.
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