Amazon
Software Development Engineer - AWS OpenSearch, OpenSearch Dashboards
$144K–$194K
Bellevue, WA · Full-time · Posted Sep 9, 2026
- Experience
- 3+ years of non-internship professional software development; 2+ years of non-internship design or architecture; 1+ year as a software development engineer or related occupation; 1+ year designing and developing large-scale applications using C#, C++, Java, or Perl; 1+ year of Object Oriented Design.
- Education
- Bachelor's degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related field.
About the job
Build and operate cloud-scale search and analytics applications, especially customer experiences for OpenSearch Dashboards.
What you'll do
- Design, develop, and support the OpenSearch search and analytics platform; deliver robust, efficient, maintainable code.
- Contribute to OpenSearch and design algorithms and architecture for areas such as visualization, observability, query optimization, security analytics, and AI-assisted insights.
- Help set the vision for OpenSearch UI and adapt it to customer needs.
What they ask for
- 3+ years of non-internship professional software development experience.
- 2+ years of non-internship design or architecture experience for new and existing systems, including design patterns, reliability, and scaling.
- At least 1 year of experience designing and developing large-scale software applications using C#, C++, Java, or Perl; at least 1 year of Object Oriented Design experience.
- Bachelor's degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related field; experience programming in at least one software language.
Nice to have
- 3+ 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
143,700.00 - 194,400.00 USD annually (base salary)
Tools
OpenSearch, OpenSearch Dashboards, C#, C++, Java, Perl
AI focus
Work on AI-assisted insights within search and analytics experiences.
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