Amazon
Software Development Engineer, AWS OpenSearch
$144K–$194K
Austin, TX · Full-time · Posted Aug 17, 2026
- Experience
- 3+ years of non-internship professional software development; 2+ years of non-internship systems 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 scalable, reliable distributed systems and features for Amazon OpenSearch Service, spanning search infrastructure, data ingestion, and cloud services.
What you'll do
- Design, develop, and support high-throughput, highly available, distributed, multi-tenant cloud-native systems.
- Build and maintain OpenSearch features, including work on data ingestion, auto-scaling, storage, search and query optimization, and security.
- Prototype and validate designs, deliver software in an Agile/Scrum environment, and advocate for operational improvements.
What they ask for
- At least 3 years of non-internship professional software development experience.
- At least 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
- At least 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, Amazon OpenSearch Service
AI focus
Join an AI-led team defining next-generation search and AI infrastructure; the role may involve machine learning.
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