Drimva

Amazon

Software Development Engineer, AWS OpenSearch Service

$144K–$194K

Austin, TX · Full-time · Posted Aug 31, 2026

Experience
3+ years professional software development; 2+ years design or architecture; 1+ years software development engineer or related occupational experience; 1+ years designing and developing large-scale software. All specified as non-internship where stated.
Education
Bachelor's degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related field.

About the job

Develop and operate components of the AWS OpenSearch Service control plane, which manages distributed OpenSearch clusters and collections at scale.

What you'll do

  • Design, build, and operate distributed control-plane components, accounting for failure modes, multi-tenant isolation, and blast radius.
  • Develop solutions for cluster orchestration, capacity provisioning, lifecycle workflows, query routing, and operational tooling; participate in incident response and root-cause analyses.
  • Use AI coding assistants and GenAI tools across the software development lifecycle, validating generated output for correctness, security, and operational quality.

What they ask for

  • 3+ years of non-internship professional software development experience.
  • 2+ years of non-internship design or architecture experience involving design patterns, reliability, and scaling.
  • 1+ years of experience designing and developing large-scale software applications, tools, systems, or services using C#, C++, Java, or Perl.
  • 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, 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

Java, Rust, Python, Go, C#, C++, Perl, Apache Lucene

AI focus

Use AI coding assistants and GenAI tools for design, prototyping, coding, testing, code review, debugging, and operations; validate their output against correctness, security, and operational standards.

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