Amazon
Software Development Engineer - III, AWS OpenSearch, New Initiative
$168K–$227K
Bellevue, WA · Full-time · Posted Oct 12, 2026
- Experience
- 5+ years for each of the three specified experience areas; leadership experience as a mentor, tech lead, or engineering team lead (no duration stated).
- Education
- Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent.
About the job
Design, develop, and support a cloud-scale search and log analytics platform for Amazon OpenSearch Service.
What you'll do
- Build and operate a secure, reliable, scalable search platform, including work on OpenSearch and Apache Lucene.
- Design algorithms and architectures and solve challenges in areas such as data storage, query optimization, security, and JVM performance.
- Help set Search Services direction and deliver software aligned with customer needs.
What they ask for
- 5+ years of non-internship professional software development experience.
- 5+ years programming in at least one software language.
- 5+ years leading design or architecture of new and existing systems, including design patterns, reliability, and scaling.
- Experience as a mentor, tech lead, or engineering team lead.
Nice to have
- 5+ years of full software development life cycle experience.
- Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent.
Pay
168,100.00 - 227,400.00 USD annually (base salary)
Tools
Java, Python, C/C++, OpenSearch, Apache Lucene, JVM
AI focus
Work may involve machine learning as one of the platform problem areas.
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