Drimva

Amazon

Software Development Engineer, AWS OpenSearch Service

$144K–$194K

Austin, TX · Full-time · Posted Jun 30, 2026

Experience
3+ years professional software development; 2+ years systems design or architecture; 1+ year software development engineer or related occupational experience; 1+ year large-scale software development and 1+ year Object Oriented Design.
Education
Bachelor's degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related field.

About the job

Develop and operate distributed control-plane systems that manage OpenSearch clusters and collections, focusing on orchestration, reliability, scaling, and operational improvements.

What you'll do

  • Design, develop, and operate large-scale distributed control-plane components, accounting for failure modes, multi-tenant isolation, and blast radius.
  • Own systems end-to-end, participate in incident response and root-cause analyses, and improve reliability, cost, and maintainability.
  • Build solutions for cluster orchestration, capacity provisioning, lifecycle workflows, query routing, and operational tooling; use AI coding and GenAI tools with engineering judgment.

What they ask for

  • 3+ years of non-internship professional software development experience.
  • 2+ years of non-internship experience in design or architecture of new and existing systems, including design patterns, reliability, and scaling.
  • At least 1 year of experience designing and developing large-scale software applications, tools, systems, or services 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 with at least one software programming language.

Nice to have

  • 3+ years across the full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control, 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 throughout the software development lifecycle, validating generated output for correctness, security, and operational quality.

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