3 days ago
Santa Clara, CA, USAMid Level
H1B sponsor
Base Salary
$165k - $224k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design, develop, and support a large-scale search platform serving AWS customers.
- Build robust, efficient, maintainable software using Java, Python, and C/C++.
- Work on OpenSearch and Apache Lucene, including potential open-source contributions.
- Solve problems involving data storage, query optimization, JVM performance, security, machine learning, search, analytics, and distributed systems.
- Drive algorithm and architecture design and deliver reliable, scalable results.
- Help define the vision and objectives for Search Services based on customer needs and market opportunities.
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: at least 3 years of full software development life-cycle experience covering coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations.
- Preferred: bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent.
Benefits
- Comprehensive health, dental, vision, prescription, life, AD&D, employee assistance, mental health, medical advice, flexible spending, adoption, and surrogacy benefits.
- 401(k) matching, paid time off, and parental leave.
- Sign-on payments and restricted stock units are included in the Amazon package.
- Mentorship, knowledge-sharing, learning experiences, and career-development resources.
- Work-life flexibility and a collaborative, inclusive team culture.
- Position 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.