Senior Software Dev Engineer, Search Services

Senior Software Dev Engineer, Search Services

AWS Utility Computing (UC) provides product innovations — from foundational services such as Amazon’s Simple Storage Service (S3) and Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), to consistently released new product innovations that continue to set AWS’s services and features apart in the industry. As a member of the UC organization, you’ll support the development and management of Compute, Database, Storage, Internet of Things (IoT), Platform, and Productivity Apps services in AWS, including support for customers who require specialized security solutions for their cloud services.

Are you interested in building out a cloud-scale log analytics and search platform? Do you want to revolutionize the way people manage and derive insights from 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? Are you passionate about Open Source?

OpenSearch Service makes it easy to deploy, operate, and scale OpenSearch for log analytics, application monitoring, full-text search, and more. 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 Service team designs, develops and operates software that allows customers to index, search and analyze documents at scale in a secure, responsive, and reliable environment. The team is tackling tough data, search and analytics problems. As we expand at a tremendous rate, we are looking for innovative engineers with a passion for data, search, analytics and distributed systems to join the team.

As a Software Development Engineer, you will:

1. Lead architecture of large initiatives in scaling, security and availability.
2. Design, develop and support a world-class search and analytics platform serving individuals and businesses of all sizes.
3. Produce bullet-proof code that is robust, efficient and maintainable; our primary languages are Java and Python.
4. Continually challenge what exists and explore what should be changed to best meet evolving business and market needs.
5. Possess expert knowledge in large scale distributed system design and engineering best practices.
6. Participate in setting a vision and objectives for Search Services in alignment with business and market needs.
7. Drive and work on algorithm and architecture design, execute and deliver results.
8. Invent the future of search, instead of just being a bystander.
9. Join a great group of motivated, top-notch people and work with them to solve interesting and useful problems in a fun, collaborative environment.

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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