# Senior Software Development Engineer, OpenSearch Platform Team

Amazon OpenSearch Service powers search, log analytics, observability, and vector workloads for tens of thousands of customers. Every one of those customers runs on software that our Data Plane Platform team ships, and keeping it current means updating and managing software updates across millions of instances at scale, safely and continuously. We own the release engine for the managed OpenSearch data plane: the pipelines, the automation, and the self-service release platform that take an upstream open source cut all the way to GA across every supported version and region. We are looking for a Software Development Engineer to help us turn releasing OpenSearch from a hand-coordinated effort into a fully automated, self-service platform. The team has already sharply reduced release cycle time, increased release throughput, consolidated its pipelines, and driven per-engineer release effort close to zero. You will build pieces of that system: the tooling, orchestration, and AI-assisted automation that let teams release safely with less manual effort. This is a hands-on builder role at the intersection of distributed systems, CI/CD, and developer experience, with a strong and growing em

- **Id**: 4134300
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/amazon-senior-software-development-engineer-opensearch-platform-team>
- **Role**: Backend
- **Role family**: Backend
- **Seniority**: senior
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Santa Clara, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 5
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: yes
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-12T03:23:02Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-12
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-12T03:23:02Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 0
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 5274
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- **Benefits**: Health insurance, Parental leave, Restricted stock units
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Advertising, Cloud Platforms (IaaS & PaaS), Logistics, Streaming & OTT Platforms

## Company

- **Id**: 19
- **Name**: Amazon
- **Domain**: amazon.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/amazon>
- **Size band**: 5000+
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Career site

### Truth index

- **Grade**: B
- **Score**: 78
- **Open postings**: 4525
- **Ghost share**: 0
- **Stale share**: 0.887
- **Repost share**: 0.003
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 30
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-11T05:49:22Z

## Salary

- **Min**: 193300
- **Max**: 261500
- **Currency**: USD
- **Period**: year
- **Usd annual**: 261500

## Technologies

- **AI Agents** — Optional: no
- **CI/CD** — Optional: no
- **OpenSearch** — Optional: no

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 0

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 5
- **Management years min**: 5
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

### Education

- **Level**: bachelor
- **Optional**: yes

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-12T03:23:02Z

## Visa

- Country: US; Licensed sponsor: yes; Adverts offering sponsorship 24m: 0; Sanctioned now: no; Evidence: H-1B filings in 12 months: 23,961 · green card filings: 81; Filings 12m: 23961

## Liveness

- **Score**: 86
- **Band**: hot
- **Label**: Hiring now
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.86
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 0
- **Expected fill days**: 31
- **Reasons**: conf:4, win:early, comp:brand
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-12T07:31:01Z

## Pay

- **Stated usd annual**: 261500
- **Is top pay**: yes

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