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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