Amazon
Software Development Engineer, AWS OpenSearch
$144K–$194K
Austin, TX · Full-time · Posted Sep 29, 2026
- Experience
- 3+ years of non-internship professional software development; 2+ years of non-internship system design or architecture experience.
- Education
- Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent.
About the job
Designs, develops, and supports reliable, scalable distributed systems and features for Amazon OpenSearch Service.
What you'll do
- Build and maintain high-throughput, highly available, multi-tenant cloud-native systems.
- Design, develop, and deploy distributed services and features involving data ingestion, storage, scaling, search, and query optimization.
- Prototype and test solutions, improve operations, and deliver software in an Agile/Scrum environment.
What they ask for
- 3+ years of non-internship professional software development experience.
- 2+ years of non-internship experience designing or architecting new and existing systems, including design patterns, reliability, and scaling.
- Experience programming in at least one software programming language.
Nice to have
- 3+ years of full software development life cycle experience, including coding standards, code reviews, source control, build processes, testing, and operations.
- 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 role is on a newly formed AI-led team; the posting does not specify particular AI responsibilities.
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