Senior SDE, OpenSearch, AWS OpenSearch

About the role

The OpenSearch team is looking for innovative engineers with a passion for helping develop the next generation of security features to help users (both, opensource community users and AWS customers) secure and manage access to their data, all at cloud scale. You will be part of a world-class team in a fast-paced environment that has the entrepreneurial feel of a start-up. This is an opportunity to operate and engineer systems on a massive scale, and to gain top-notch experience in cloud computing.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop and support security for a world-class platform serving individuals and businesses of all sizes
• Building technologies that help customers strengthen their security posture and better meet security requirements in the AWS Cloud
• Work at the core of the AWS OpenSearch service, with ample opportunities to contribute to open source
• Work on challenging problems in areas such as data storage, query optimization, JVM performance optimization, security, machine learning and more
• You will join a team that values strong intuition, but seek metrics and other data sources to back up their assumptions
• Supporting plugin teams in meeting the security requirements for host logging, patching, and vulnerability detection
• Continually challenge what exists and explore what should be changed to best meet evolving customer needs
• Participate in setting a vision and objectives for AWS OpenSearch in alignment with customer needs and market opportunities

Qualifications

• 5+ years of non-internship professional software development experience
• 5+ years of programming with at least one software programming language experience
• 5+ years of leading design or architecture (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
• Experience as a mentor, tech lead or leading an engineering team