Drimva

Amazon

Software Development Engineer, AWS OpenSearch Service

$144K–$194K

Austin, TX · Full-time · Posted Aug 17, 2026

Experience
3+ years professional software development; 2+ years non-internship design or architecture; 1+ years software development engineer or related occupational experience; 1+ years designing and developing large-scale software using C#, C++, Java, or Perl; 1+ years 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 the AWS OpenSearch Service control plane, which manages distributed clusters and collections and supports reliable search and analytics workloads.

What you'll do

  • Design, develop, and operate distributed control-plane components, including orchestration, provisioning, lifecycle workflows, and multi-tenant infrastructure.
  • Own systems end-to-end, participate in incident response and root-cause analyses, and improve reliability and operations.
  • Develop and maintain code, using AI coding assistants and GenAI tools across the software development lifecycle while validating their output.

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.
  • 1+ years of experience designing and developing large-scale software applications, tools, systems, or services using C#, C++, Java, or Perl; plus 1+ years of Object Oriented Design experience.
  • Bachelor's degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related field; 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

Java, Rust, Python, Go, C#, C++, Perl, OpenSearch

AI focus

Use AI coding assistants and GenAI tools throughout the software development lifecycle, validating generated output for correctness, security, and operational quality.

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First seen Oct 15, 2026 · Last verified Nov 5, 2026 (UTC)