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# Sr. Software Dev Engineer, AWS OpenSearch Service

- **Company:** Amazon.com, Inc.
- **Location:** Austin, TX, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Contract:** Internship / Graduate position
- **Skills:** Artificial Intelligence, Amazon Web Services, Apache Lucene, Code Review, Computer Programming, Software Design Patterns, Distributed Systems, Fault Tolerance, Machine Learning, Routing, Software Engineering, Information Technology, Build Process, Virtual Agents, Software Coding, Software Version Control, Programming Languages
- **Published:** July 2, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.jobmonkeyjobs.com/career/27815251/Sr-Software-Dev-Engineer-Aws-Opensearch-Service-Texas-Austin-7375

## About the Role

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

## Description

Drive architectural decisions in a large-scale distributed system - multi-region orchestration workflows, multi-tenant control surfaces, lifecycle automation, scale-to-zero, regional failure isolation, and graceful degradation under partial outage

 - Invent and Simplify in equal measure - drive simplification of legacy designs as actively as you propose new ones; identify and eliminate accidental complexity across the team's surfaces; mentor others on simplifying-by-design
 - Treat operations as core engineering - own the systems you build end-to-end, lead incident response and RCAs with customer-first urgency, and drive operational improvements that compound across the team
 - Lead design and development of complex services across cluster management, capacity orchestration, scaling policies, query routing, security, and machine learning
 - Build and apply AI fluency across the software development lifecycle - decompose problems for AI assistance, ground prompts in relevant context, validate AI-generated output, and use AI to accelerate both code and beyond-code work
 - Mentor and grow engineers across the team; raise the bar for software development, operational excellence, and security
 - Set technical direction and partner with the broader OpenSearch organization to align solutions with customer needs and market opportunities
 - Contribute upstream to OpenSearch and Apache Lucene


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