Sr. SDE, Amazon OpenSearch Service

Amazon OpenSearch Service is a fully managed search and analytics service powering mission-critical search observability and generative AI workloads at massive scale. Hundreds of thousands of customers rely on OpenSearch for workloads ranging from application search and log analytics to vector and hybrid retrieval.

We are building the next generation of OpenSearch Migration Assistant: an AI-powered system designed to make migrating complex search and analytics workloads to OpenSearch dramatically easier. Customers today run workloads across legacy OpenSearch and Elasticsearch deployments as well as other search observability and analytics platforms. Migration Assistant aims to understand these existing environments; determine how workloads queries and downstream applications should map to OpenSearch; automate the required transformations; orchestrate data and configuration migration; validate correctness and performance; and help customers safely cut over production traffic.

As a Software Development Engineer on the OpenSearch team you will help define and build this system from the ground up. You will turn ambiguous customer problems into technical designs prototype new approaches and productionize them as reliable services used across AWS.

You will tackle challenging problems spanning AI agents distributed systems workload discovery and translation cluster management data movement and pipeline orchestration query optimization validation and multi-tenant infrastructure. You will work with technologies including Rust Java Python Go and AWS services while building systems that must be secure highly available and capable of operating across AWS regions at massive scale.

This is a greenfield opportunity on a newly formed team with significant ownership over both product and architecture. You will work at the intersection of generative AI distributed systems and search helping redefine how customers move complex production workloads from legacy and third-party systems to OpenSearch.


- 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

- 5 years of full software development life cycle including coding standards code reviews source control management build processes testing and operations experience
- Bachelors degree in computer science or equivalent

Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status disability or other legally protected status.

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 Companys reputation. Pursuant to the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

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The base salary range for this position is listed below. Your Amazon package will include sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience qualifications and location. Amazon also offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance (medical dental vision prescription Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans EAP Mental Health Support Medical Advice Line Flexible Spending Accounts Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage) 401(k) matching paid time off and parental leave. Learn more about our benefits at CA Santa Clara - 193300.00 - 261500.00 USD annually