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Senior Software Development Engineer, OpenSearch Platform Team

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8 hours ago
Santa Clara, CA, USASenior
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Base Salary

$193k - $262k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Build and operate services, pipelines, and automation that manage software updates across millions of instances, versions, and regions.
  • Extend the self-service release platform so engineering teams can ship features quickly and reliably.
  • Implement staged rollouts, automated validation, rollback, and blast-radius controls to improve release safety.
  • Apply AI and agentic automation to release processes that still require manual effort.
  • Own production operations, including on-call, runbooks, metrics, and reducing operational load.
  • Partner with engineering teams that build and release on the platform.

Requirements

  • 5+ years of non-internship professional software development experience.
  • 5+ years of programming experience with at least one software programming language.
  • 5+ years of leading design or architecture for new and existing systems, including design patterns, reliability, and scaling.
  • Experience as a mentor, tech lead, or engineering team leader.
  • Preferred: 5+ years across the full software development lifecycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations.
  • Preferred: bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent.

Benefits

  • Health insurance including medical, dental, vision, prescription, life and AD&D coverage, employee assistance, mental health support, medical advice, flexible spending accounts, and adoption and surrogacy reimbursement.
  • 401(k) matching, paid time off, and parental leave.
  • Sign-on payments and restricted stock units are included in the Amazon compensation package.
  • Based in Santa Clara, California.

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10,000+ employees

Amazon builds and operates a global e-commerce marketplace, logistics network, and consumer devices, and provides cloud computing via AWS for businesses and developers. The company earns revenue from online retail, third‑party seller services, subscriptions like Prime, advertising, and AWS usage. Founded in 1994 and headquartered in Seattle, it is publicly traded on NASDAQ (AMZN) and serves customers in dozens of countries.

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