# Sr. Software Dev Engineer, AWS OpenSearch Service

Imagine running search and analytics at any scale without thinking about clusters, capacity, or version upgrades. Where your queries return in milliseconds whether you're indexing a thousand documents or a hundred billion. Where the platform scales, heals, and secures itself so your team can focus on the questions, not the infrastructure. That's what we build at Amazon OpenSearch. Amazon OpenSearch is the fully managed and Serverless AWS service that lets customers deploy, operate, and scale OpenSearch for log analytics, full-text search, application monitoring, observability, and AI-powered retrieval. We serve hundreds of thousands of customers running mission-critical workloads across every AWS region, and we are part of the AWS Database and Analytics organization. Come join the OpenSearch Control Plane team. We are responsible for a service that: - Reliably manages a large fleet of cloud-native OpenSearch clusters and collections, freeing customers from sizing, scaling, and patching decisions - Guarantees high availability and durability for mission-critical search and observability workloads at the scale of the most demanding internet businesses - Orchestrates and automates the

- **Id**: 4150468
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/amazon-sr-software-dev-engineer-aws-opensearch-service>
- **Role**: Backend
- **Role family**: Backend
- **Seniority**: senior
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Austin, 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**: 2026-11-12T08:53:42Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-12
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-12T08:53:42Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 0
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 7993
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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**: 168100
- **Max**: 227400
- **Currency**: USD
- **Period**: year
- **Usd annual**: 227400

## Technologies

- **Apache HTTP Server** — Optional: no
- **AWS** — Optional: no
- **Java** — Optional: no
- **Machine Learning** — Optional: no
- **Multimodal AI** — Optional: no
- **OpenSearch** — Optional: no
- **Python** — Optional: no
- **Rust** — 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: 2026-11-12T08:53:42Z

## 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:1, win:early, comp:brand
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-12T10:03:53Z

## Pay

- **Stated usd annual**: 227400
- **Is top pay**: yes

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