27 days ago
Santa Clara, CA, USAMid Level
H1B sponsor
Base Salary
$165k - $224k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design, develop, and support high-throughput, highly available, distributed, multi-tenant, cloud-native systems.
- Lead development and maintenance of key features for Amazon OpenSearch Service.
- Design and build scalable, fault-tolerant distributed systems operating across AWS regions.
- Develop robust, efficient, and maintainable code, primarily in Java and Rust.
- Solve problems involving data ingestion, auto-scaling, data storage, search optimization, query optimization, cluster management, and security.
- Prototype and validate design approaches with teammates and translate business and functional requirements into deliverables.
- Identify and advocate for operational improvements that reduce maintenance and development costs.
- Collaborate with technology leaders and a cross-functional engineering team in an Agile/Scrum environment.
Requirements
- At least 3 years of non-internship professional software development experience.
- At least 2 years of non-internship experience designing or architecting new and existing systems, including design patterns, reliability, and scaling.
- Experience programming in at least one software programming language.
- Preferred: 3+ years of full software development lifecycle experience, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations.
- Preferred: bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent.
- Ability to investigate design approaches, prototype solutions, validate them through testing, and work effectively with ambiguity.
Benefits
- Health insurance including medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life and AD&D insurance, and optional supplemental life plans.
- Employee Assistance Program, mental health support, medical advice line, flexible spending accounts, and adoption and surrogacy reimbursement coverage.
- 401(k) matching, paid time off, and parental leave.
- The compensation package may include sign-on payments and restricted stock units.
- The position is based in Santa Clara, California.
About Amazon
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.