Amazon
Software Development Engineer , OpenSearch AI Search Team
$168K–$227K
Bellevue, WA · Full-time · Posted Jul 30, 2026
- Experience
- 5+ years for each of the three stated experience qualifications; leadership experience as a mentor, tech lead, or engineering team lead is also required.
- Education
- Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent.
About the job
Designs and develops the Amazon OpenSearch Service search platform, addressing distributed systems, AI, storage, query optimization, reliability, and security challenges.
What you'll do
- Design, develop, and support a scalable search platform; produce robust, maintainable code.
- Lead architecture and design decisions, deliver engineering work, and mentor other engineers.
- Work on OpenSearch open-source software, with opportunities to contribute upstream.
What they ask for
- 5+ years of non-internship professional software development experience.
- 5+ years of programming experience in at least one software programming 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, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations.
- Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent.
Pay
168,100.00 - 227,400.00 USD annually (base salary)
Tools
Java, Python, OpenSearch
AI focus
Work on AI-related challenges in search and distributed systems and help shape the future of search and analytics.
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