Senior SDE, OpenSearch, AWS OpenSearch
Confirmed on the employer's own hiring board on Nov 2, 2026. First seen by Alion on Oct 22, 2026. Amazon scores B on the Alion truth index.
Are you interested in building security for a cloud-scale distributed log analytics and search platform? Do you want to revolutionize the way people manage and secure 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 service makes it easy to deploy, operate, and scale Opensearch (for log analytics, application monitoring, full-text search, and more! Amazon Opensearch service is a fully managed service that delivers Opensearch’s easy-to-use APIs and real-time capabilities along with offering predictable performance and seamless scalability for production workloads.
The OpenSearch team is looking for innovative engineers with a passion for helping develop the next generation of security features to help users (both, opensource community users and AWS customers) secure and manage access to their data, all at cloud scale.
You should be somebody who enjoys working on complex system software, is customer-centric, and feels strongly about delivering results. You should be passionate about solving security hurdles in innovative ways. You'll be part of a world-class team in a fast-paced environment that has the entrepreneurial feel of a start-up. This is an opportunity to operate and engineer systems on a massive scale, and to gain top-notch experience in cloud computing. You'll be surrounded by people who are smart, passionate about cloud computing, and believe that world class service is critical to customer success.
About OpenSearch
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OpenSearch is a community-driven, Apache 2.0-licensed open-source search and analytics suite built on Apache Lucene. Since launching in July 2021, the project has delivered multiple major and minor releases with innovations in core search, vector search, and analytics capabilities. Our next phase focuses on transforming OpenSearch into an intelligent retrieval engine - one that meets the evolving needs of customers running search, analytics, and AI-powered workloads across structured, unstructured, and multi-modal data.
Key job responsibilities
As a Software Development Engineer on the Amazon Opensearch Security team, you will:
1. Design, develop and support security for a world-class platform serving individuals and businesses of all sizes
2. Building technologies that help customers strengthen their security posture and better meet security requirements in the AWS Cloud
3. Work at the core of the AWS OpenSearch service, with ample opportunities to contribute to open source
4. Work on challenging problems in areas such as data storage, query optimization, JVM performance optimization, security, machine learning and more.
5. You will join a team that values strong intuition, but seek metrics and other data sources to back up their assumptions.
6. Supporting plugin teams in meeting the security requirements for host logging, patching, and vulnerability detection.
7. Continually challenge what exists and explore what should be changed to best meet evolving customer needs
8. Participate in setting a vision and objectives for AWS OpenSearch in alignment with customer needs and market opportunities
Basic 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
Preferred qualifications
- 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
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USA, TX, Austin - 168,100.00 - 227,400.00 USD annually