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Software Development Engineer - AWS OpenSearch, OpenSearch Dashboards

AWS — The world's largest cloud platform

Bellevue, Washington, USA Mid Posted Aug 3, 2026
JavaC++REST/APIsCloudFrontendBackend

About the role

Amazon OpenSearch Service is looking for a Software Development Engineer to build world-class applications for our customers. Are you interested in building out a cloud-scale search and analytics application? 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? You will work on architecting, designing, and implementing high-performance applications for our customers to interact with Amazon OpenSearch Service. Amazon OpenSearch Service makes it easy to deploy, operate, and scale OpenSearch for log analytics, observability, application monitoring, full-text search, security analytics, and more. Amazon OpenSearch Service is a fully managed service that delivers OpenSearch's flexible APIs and real-time capabilities along with predictable performance and seamless scalability for production workloads. The service supports both provisioned clusters and serverless deployment options, serving hundreds of thousands of customers across all AWS regions. At AWS, you'll experience the benefits of working in a dynamic, entrepreneurial environment, while leveraging the resources of Amazon.com (AMZN), one of the world's leading internet companies. The Amazon OpenSearch Service team is part of the rapidly growing AWS Database and Analytics group. We are customer-obsessed in a highly collaborative, team-oriented environment. The Amazon 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. We are looking for a skilled developer to build the next generation of search, observability, and log analytics customer experiences on OpenSearch Dashboards (the managed UI for OpenSearch Service). Key job responsibilities As a Software Development Engineer on the Amazon OpenSearch Service team, you will: Design, develop, and support a world-class search and analytics platform serving individuals and businesses of all sizes Produce high-quality code that is robust, efficient, and maintainable Work at the core of OpenSearch and contribute to the open-source project Work on challenging problems in areas such as data visualization, log analytics, observability pipelines, query optimization, security analytics, and AI-assisted insights Continually challenge what exists and explore what should be changed to best meet evolving customer needs Possess knowledge in large-scale distributed system design and engineering best practices Participate in setting a vision and objectives for OpenSearch UI in alignment with customer needs and market opportunities Drive algorithm and architecture design, execute, and deliver results Build the future of search, observability, and log analytics in the cloud Join a great group of motivated, top-notch people and work with them to solve challenging problems in a fun, collaborative environment
- 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 - 1+ years of software development engineer or related occupational experience - 1+ years of designing and developing large-scale, multi-tiered, multi-threaded, embedded or distributed software applications, tools, systems, and services using: C#, C++, Java, or Perl experience - 1+ years of Object Oriented Design experience - Bachelor's degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related field - Experience programming with at least one software programming language

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  • First seen by JobLarper — Aug 7, 2026 (today). Still inside the window where applications get read by a human rather than a pile.
  • No pay range in our index for this listing. Across 1,684 indexed Software Engineer roles in US that do publish one, the middle half sits between $185k and $285k, median $225k — JobLarper's read of the market, not a figure from AWS.
  • What Software Engineer roles ask for — across 10,228 indexed openings: REST/APIs (47%), Backend (42%), Cloud (38%), Python (38%), Go (25%). This posting names REST/APIs, Backend, Cloud, Frontend.
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