Senior Software Development Engineer - Amazon OpenSearch, OpenSearch

Are you interested in expanding the core search and query engine capabilities of a highly scalable open source log analytics and search platform? Do you like collaborating and working on a decentralized open-source model, but also have ownership on real deployments of that project? Do you have experience working directly with Lucene and understand how features like Lucene codecs, facets, similarity functions, k-NN, and queries work? Do you get the differences between dense and sparse vector search? Do your peers consider you a mentor and do you enjoy scaling yourself by helping others learn?

OpenSearch is a community-driven, Apache 2.0-licensed open source search and analytics suite built on Apache Lucene that makes it easy to ingest, search, visualize, and analyze data. As a community-driven project, multiple companies and individuals share responsibility for directing and contributing to the OpenSearch Project. As one of the larger integrators of the project, AWS OpenSearch and AWS OpenSearch Serverless, you will see the impact of your open source contributions directly and see how these contributions make our customers successful.

We are hiring software engineers proficient in Lucene to help bring more capabilities and performance improvements into Lucene and OpenSearch. This is a rare opportunity to work with other talented engineers passionate about search not only at AWS, but also with folks at other companies contributing to both Lucene, OpenSearch and other open source projects.

Key job responsibilities:

• Design, develop and maintain software by collaborating with the open source community and internal AWS stakeholders on Apache Lucene and OpenSearch.
• Have support from AWS in contributing to Apache Lucene as well as OpenSearch.
• Produce bullet-proof code that is robust, efficient and maintainable; our primary languages are Java, C/C++, and Python.
• Exercise your expert knowledge in large scale distributed system design and engineering best practices.
• Follow and set best practices and standards to ensure high quality contributions.
• Maintain effective communication and collaboration with partner teams, both local and remote, in completing interdependent work items.
• Work closely with multiple teams across search service organization and help them understand and implement best practices.
• Advocate for open source, both inside and outside the company.
• Engage with developers and management in seeing our open source release operationalized appropriately with monitoring, alerting, testing.
• Join a great group of motivated, top-notch people and work with them to solve challenging problems in a fun, collaborative environment.

This role offers a unique opportunity to work on cutting-edge search technology, contribute to open-source projects, and make a significant impact on AWS's search services. If you're passionate about search, distributed systems, and open-source development, this could be an exciting career move for you.