Amazon Senior Software Development Engineer - AWS OpenSearch 

United States, California, East Palo Alto 

904733372

Utility Computing (UC)
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As a Software Development Engineer on the Amazon OpenSearch Service team, you will:1. Design, develop and support a world-class search platform serving individuals and businesses of all sizes2. Produce bullet-proof code that is robust, efficient and maintainable; our primary languages are Java, Python, and C/C++3. Work at the core ofOpenSearch and Apache Lucene open source software with opportunities to contribute to open source4. Work on challenging problems in areas such as data storage, query optimization, JVM performance optimization, security, machine learning and more.5. Continually challenge what exists and explore what should be changed to best meet evolving customer needs6. Possess expert knowledge in large scale distributed system design and engineering best practices7. Participate in setting a vision and objectives for Search Services in alignment with customer needs and market opportunities8. Drive and work on algorithm and architecture design, execute and deliver results9. Invent the future of search and log analytics in the cloud

- 3+ years of non-internship professional software development experience
- 2+ years of non-internship design or architecture (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
- Experience programming with at least one software programming language

- 3+ 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