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Senior SDE, OpenSearch, AWS OpenSearch

Amazon· Software Development
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Santa Clara, CA, Austin, TX, Bellevue, WA$193.3k - $261.5kfull-timePosted yesterday

About the role

Senior Software Development Engineer position on the Amazon OpenSearch Security team, focused on building security features for a cloud-scale distributed log analytics and search platform (OpenSearch) within AWS. Roles include designing, developing, and supporting security for the OpenSearch service, contributing to open source, and helping secure data at cloud scale.

Responsibilities

  • Design, develop and support security for a world-class platform serving individuals and businesses of all sizes
  • Building technologies that help customers strengthen their security posture and better meet security requirements in the AWS Cloud
  • Work at the core of the AWS OpenSearch service, with ample opportunities to contribute to open source
  • Work on challenging problems in areas such as data storage, query optimization, JVM performance optimization, security, machine learning and more
  • You will join a team that values strong intuition, but seek metrics and other data sources to back up their assumptions.
  • Supporting plugin teams in meeting the security requirements for host logging, patching, and vulnerability detection
  • Continually challenge what exists and explore what should be changed to best meet evolving customer needs
  • Participate in setting a vision and objectives for AWS OpenSearch in alignment with customer needs and market opportunities

Qualifications

  • 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
  • Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent

Skills

Required:Software developmentLeadership / mentoring

Benefits

  • Health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription) and additional life insurance options
  • 401(k) matching
  • paid time off
  • parenteral leave
  • RSUs (restricted stock units) and sign-on payments included in package
Last updated Oct 25, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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