Software Development Engineer, AWS OpenSearch
Description
Amazon OpenSearch Service is a fully managed service that makes it easy to deploy, operate, and scale OpenSearch clusters for log analytics, full-text search, application monitoring, and more. As part of AWS, we serve hundreds of thousands of customers who rely on OpenSearch to power mission-critical search and observability workloads at scale. As a Software Development Engineer on the OpenSearch team, you will help solve a variety of technical challenges in distributed systems, data ingestion, and search infrastructure.
Key job responsibilities
Design, develop and support high throughput, highly available, distributed, multi-tenant, cloud native systems.
Produce bullet-proof code that is robust, efficient and maintainable; our primary languages are Java and Rust.
Leading development and maintenance of key system features for Amazon OpenSearch Service
Designing and building scalable, fault-tolerant distributed systems
Work on challenging problems in areas such as cluster management, data pipeline orchestration, query optimization, and multi-tenant infrastructure — all while ensuring high availability and security for our customers.
Tackle challenging problems in areas such as data ingestion, auto-scaling, data storage, search optimization and query optimization, security, machine learning and more.
Identify and advocate for operational improvements, reducing maintenance and development cost
Basic qualifications
Working with other team members to investigate design approaches, prototype solutions, and validate them through testing
Working in an Agile/Scrum environment to deliver high quality software in a fast paced environment.
Preferred qualifications
3+ years of full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations experience
Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent