Software Development Engineer, Amazon OpenSearch Service - DIY Observability

## Responsibilities - Design, develop, and support a world-class OpenSearch Service that manages thousands of search domains. - Focus on scalability, performance, service robustness, and cost trade-offs. (Especially as they pertain to a highly-virtualized, elastic, cloud-based environment) - Apply scientific analysis and mathematical modeling techniques to predict, measure, and evaluate the consequences of designs and the ongoing success of our platform - Continuously drive to explore, improve, enhance, automate, and optimize distributed systems and tools to best meet evolving business and market needs - Work alongside a dedicated operations team to develop and support the smooth 24x7 operation of our worldwide service - Participate in setting a vision and objectives for Amazon OpenSearch Service in alignment with business and market needs - Invent the future of search instead of just being a bystander - Mentor other SDEs and advise the leadership team on the technical vision ## Requirements - 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 - 3+ years of big data technologies such as AWS, Hadoop, Spark, Pig, Hive, Lucene/SOLR or Storm/Samza experience - Experience programming with at least one software programming language ## Nice to Have - 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 ## Benefits - Inclusive Team Culture - Mentorship & Career Growth - Work/Life Balance - Work with a small, agile team where your ideas have the potential to reach millions within a short span of time - Leverage the resources of a Fortune-500 company within the atmosphere of a start-up - Engage in passionate discussions with smart people and let the best ideas rise to the top - See your mistakes as learning opportunities and continually look for ways to improve yourself, your team and your products - Understand that not all solutions come easily and don’t shy away from hard work to reach your goals