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

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Los Angeles County applicants: Job duties for this position include: work safely and cooperatively with other employees, supervisors, and staff; adhere to standards of excellence despite stressful conditions; communicate effectively and respectfully with employees, supervisors, and staff to ensure exceptional customer service; and follow all federal, state, and local laws and Company policies. Criminal history may have a direct, adverse, and negative relationship with some of the material job duties of this position. These include the duties and responsibilities listed above, as well as the abilities to adhere to company policies, exercise sound judgment, effectively manage stress and work safely and respectfully with others, exhibit trustworthiness and professionalism, and safeguard business operations and the Company’s reputation. Pursuant to the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $129,300/year in our lowest geographic market up to $223,600/year in our highest geographic market. Pay is based on a number of factors including market location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Amazon is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered, equity, sign-on payments, and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package, in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits. For more information, please visit https://www.aboutamazon.com/workplace/employee-benefits. This position will remain posted until filled. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.
Are you interested in building out a next generation cloud-scale security analytics and observabilty platform ? Do you want to revolutionize the way people manage and derive insights from vast volumes of data in the cloud? Do you want to have direct and immediate impact on a large number of AWS users? Do you want to be part of a fast-growing AWS service and work in a fast paced startup style environment?

Amazon OpenSearch security analytics and observability makes it easy to deploy, operate, and scale OpenSearch for log analytics, trace and metrics analytics, application monitoring and many other use cases of devops, netops, secops augmented by advanced ML algorithms. Amazon OpenSearch is a fully managed analytics service that leverages easy-to-use APIs and extensive real-time search capabilities to offer a predictable performant and scalable observability solution for production workloads.

At AWS, 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. The Amazon OpenSearch Observability team is part of the rapidly growing AWS Database and Analytics group. We are customer obsessed in a highly collaborative team-oriented environment.

The Amazon OpenSearch Observability team designs, develops and operates software that allows customers to index, search and analyze infrastructure and application insights data at scale in a secure, responsive, and reliable environment. The team is tackling tough data ingestion, de-noising, threat detection, threat investigation, correlation and threat response problems. As we expand at a tremendous rate, we are looking for innovative engineers with a passion for data, search, security, analytics and distributed systems to join the team:

Design, develop and support a world-class Observability platform on OpenSearch Platform serving individuals and businesses of all sizes

Produce bullet-proof code that is robust, efficient and maintainable; our primary languages are Java, Python, and C/C++

Work on OpenSearch and Apache Lucene open source software to build large-scale ingestion pipelines, numerous plugins, cost-effective indexing on data lakes, AI-driven advanced correlations, anomaly detection, forecasting, alerting, remediation and more with opportunities to contribute to open source

Develop end-to-end cloud-native solutions for application performance monitoring (APM), Security information and event management (SIEM), Network Monitoring and many more

Work on challenging problems in areas such as data storage, query optimization, JVM performance optimization, security, machine learning and more

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 observability in alignment with customer needs and market opportunities

Drive and work on algorithm and architecture design, execute and deliver results

Join a great group of motivated, top-notch, people and work with them to solve challenging problems in a fun, collaborative environment

Utility Computing (UC)
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 customers who require specialized security solutions for their cloud services.

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Diverse Experiences
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