Senior Software Development Engineer, OpenSearch Platform Team

Amazon is hiring a Senior Software Development Engineer, OpenSearch Platform Team in Santa Clara, United States. It pays $193k-$262k a year and Level rates it ; you can apply on Amazon.

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Amazon OpenSearch Service powers search, log analytics, observability, and vector workloads for tens of thousands of customers. Every one of those customers runs on software that our Data Plane Platform team ships, and keeping it current means updating and managing software updates across millions of instances at scale, safely and continuously. We own the release engine for the managed OpenSearch data plane: the pipelines, the automation, and the self-service release platform that take an upstream open source cut all the way to GA across every supported version and region.

We are looking for a Software Development Engineer to help us turn releasing OpenSearch from a hand-coordinated effort into a fully automated, self-service platform. The team has already sharply reduced release cycle time, increased release throughput, consolidated its pipelines, and driven per-engineer release effort close to zero. You will build pieces of that system: the tooling, orchestration, and AI-assisted automation that let teams release safely with less manual effort.

This is a hands-on builder role at the intersection of distributed systems, CI/CD, and developer experience, with a strong and growing emphasis on AI. You will own well-scoped components end to end, from design through operations, with mentorship from senior engineers on the team, and you will have real opportunity to apply AI and agentic automation to real release problems. The code you ship becomes part of the paved road the OpenSearch organization releases on.

Key job responsibilities
Build and operate the services, pipelines, and automation that update and manage software updates across millions of instances at scale, safely and continuously, across many versions and regions.
Build and extend the self-service release platform so builders across the organization can ship features quickly and reliably.
Improve release safety with staged rollouts, automated validation, rollback, and blast-radius controls so a bad change does not reach customers at scale.
Apply AI and agentic automation to the parts of releasing that still require manual effort today.
Own the operations of what you build: on-call, runbooks, metrics, and reducing operational load over time.
Partner with the engineering teams who build and release on top of your platform.

Basic qualifications

- 5+ years of non-internship professional software development experience
- 5+ years of programming with at least one software programming language experience
- 5+ years of leading design or architecture (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
- Experience as a mentor, tech lead or leading an engineering team

Preferred qualifications

- 5+ years of full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations experience
- Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent

Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status.

Los Angeles County applicants: Job duties for this position include: work safely and cooperatively with other employees, supervisors, and staff; adhere to standards of excellence despite stressful conditions; communicate effectively and respectfully with employees, supervisors, and staff to ensure exceptional customer service; and follow all federal, state, and local laws and Company policies. Criminal history may have a direct, adverse, and negative relationship with some of the material job duties of this position. These include the duties and responsibilities listed above, as well as the abilities to adhere to company policies, exercise sound judgment, effectively manage stress and work safely and respectfully with others, exhibit trustworthiness and professionalism, and safeguard business operations and the Company’s reputation. Pursuant to the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

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The base salary range for this position is listed below. Your Amazon package will include sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience, qualifications, and location. Amazon also offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans, EAP, Mental Health Support, Medical Advice Line, Flexible Spending Accounts, Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage), 401(k) matching, paid time off, and parental leave. Learn more about our benefits at https://amazon.jobs/en/benefits.

USA, CA, Santa Clara - 193,300.00 - 261,500.00 USD annually

How we rate this

Senior Software Development Engineer, OpenSearch Platform Team at Amazon rates 26 out of 100 for how much of the daily work is AI. That makes it Little AI (AI Level 1 of 4). The level is about AI in the job, not seniority.

Classification

Little AI. AI is not part of the work.

●●●● Builds AI80 to 100
●●●○ Works on AI60 to 79
●●○○ Uses AI40 to 59
●○○○ Little AI0 to 39

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Key facts

Senior Software Development Engineer, OpenSearch Platform Team is an open job at Amazon.
Level rates this role AI Level 1 of 4: Little AI.
The listed salary is $193k-$262k a year.
The role is based in US, CA, Santa Clara.
The job was posted on November 12, 2026.
Seniority: senior.
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