Amazon
Software Development Engineer, AWS OpenSearch Service
$144K–$224K
Austin, TX +2 · Full-time · Posted Sep 18, 2026
- Location
- Austin, TX
Bellevue, WA
Santa Clara, CA - Experience
- 3+ years of non-internship professional software development; 2+ years of non-internship design or architecture; 1+ years of software development engineer or related occupational experience; 1+ years developing large-scale software using C#, C++, Java, or Perl; 1+ years 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 the AWS OpenSearch Service control plane, orchestrating distributed clusters and collections for reliable, scalable search and analytics workloads.
What you'll do
- Design, develop, and operate distributed control-plane components, accounting for failure modes, tenant isolation, and blast radius.
- Own systems end to end, participate in incident response and root-cause analyses, and improve reliability and operations.
- Develop cluster orchestration, capacity provisioning, lifecycle workflows, and related infrastructure and tooling; use AI coding assistants across the development lifecycle.
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 developing large-scale software using C#, C++, Java, or Perl, and 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 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
165,200.00 - 223,600.00 USD annually (base salary); 165,200.00 - 223,600.00 USD annually (base salary); 143,700.00 - 194,400.00 USD annually (base salary); 143,700.00 - 194,400.00 USD annually (base salary); 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 across design, prototyping, coding, testing, code review, debugging, and operations; validate their output for correctness, security, and operational quality.
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