CareerPlan

Software Development Engineer, AWS OpenSearch

Austin, Texas, United StatesFull-time$144k–$194k2026-09-29 → 2026-11-09

Core

Design, develop, and support high-throughput, highly available, distributed, multi-tenant, cloud-native systems for Amazon OpenSearch Service.

Role type

Senior Software Development Engineer (Distributed Systems)

Builds

Distributed search and observability clusters for AWS customers

Domain

Cloud infrastructure, distributed systems, search technology

Required skills

Java, Rust, distributed systems design, data pipeline orchestration, query optimization, cluster management, multi-tenant architecture

Preferred skills

Full software development lifecycle experience, system architecture, code reviews, testing, operations

Technologies

Java, Rust, Python, Golang, AWS services

Responsibilities

Design and build scalable, fault-tolerant distributed systems; develop and maintain key system features; optimize data ingestion and search performance; advocate for operational improvements

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC