Software Development Engineer, AWS OpenSearch

- 3+ years of non-internship professional software development experience
- 2+ years of non-internship design or architecture (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
- Experience programming with at least one software programming language
- 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
AWS Utility Computing (UC) provides product innovations — from foundational services such as Amazon’s Simple Storage Service (S3) and Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), to consistently released new product innovations that continue to set AWS’s services and features apart in the industry. As a member of the UC organization, you’ll support the development and management of Compute, Database, Storage, Internet of Things (Iot), Platform, and Productivity Apps services in AWS, including support for customers who require specialized security solutions for their cloud services.

OpenSearch Service (part of Amazon’s AWS services) is a fully managed service that makes it easy for you to deploy, secure, and operate OpenSearch at scale with zero down time. The service offers open-source Open Search APIs, managed Kibana, and integrations with Logstash and other AWS Services, enabling you to securely ingest data from any source and search, analyze, and visualize it in real time. With OpenSearch Service, you get the ELK stack you need, without the operational overhead. OpenSearch Service team is part of the rapidly growing AWS Database Services and Analytics organization.

You’ll experience the benefits of working in a dynamic, entrepreneurial environment, while leveraging the resources of Amazon.com (AMZN), one of the world's leading internet companies. OpenSearch Service operates at high scale and is trusted by global enterprise customers to run their critical workload: your work will have global impact. Joining our team, you'll enjoy a challenging, creative and a fast-paced work environment. We need developers who can build and operate large scale fault tolerant distributed systems. As we continue to grow our customer base and new features we maintain the high bar of scalable, efficient, highly available, and fault tolerant system. Your work is critical and has direct impact on end customers.

OpenSearch Service team designs, develops and operates the software that manages the OpenSearch domains and coordinates fleetwide resource allocation. We coordinate the efforts of many thousands of servers in a highly dynamic environment. We are redefining how we think about enabling our internal and external customers to scale without limit. You will get to work on core OpenSearch/Lucene features, build plugins on top of it, have smart domain monitoring, scalable metadata problem, predictive/intelligent shard allocation and optimized query and aggregation problems. etc.

As a Software Development Engineer on the OpenSearch Service team, you will:
- Design, develop and support a world-class search platform serving individuals and businesses of all sizes
- Produce bulletproof code that is robust, efficient and maintainable; our primary languages are Java, Python, and Go
- Work at the core of OpenSearch and Apache Lucene open source software with opportunities to contribute to open source
- Continually challenge what exists and explore what should be changed to best meet evolving customer needs
- Possess expert knowledge in large scale distributed system design and engineering best practices
- Participate in setting a vision and objectives for Search Services in alignment with customer needs and market opportunities
- Drive and work on algorithm and architecture design, execute and deliver results
- Invent the future of search and log analytics in the cloud


About the team
Diverse Experiences
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Work/Life Balance
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