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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