Senior SDE, OpenSearch, AWS OpenSearch

Are you interested in building security for a cloud-scale distributed log analytics and search platform? Do you want to revolutionize the way people manage and secure vast volumes of data in the cloud? Do you want to have direct and immediate impact on a large number of AWS users? Do you want to be part of a fast-growing AWS service and work in a fast paced startup style environment?

Amazon Open search makes it easy to deploy, operate, and scale Open search (for log analytics, application monitoring, full-text search, and more! Amazon Open search is a fully managed service that delivers Open search’s easy-to-use APIs and real-time capabilities along with offering predictable performance and seamless scalability for production workloads.

The Open Search team is looking for innovative engineers with a passion for helping develop the next generation of security features to help users (both, opensource community users and AWS customers) secure and manage access to their data, all at cloud scale. You should be somebody who enjoys working on complex system software, is customer-centric, and feels strongly about delivering results.

You should be passionate about solving security hurdles in innovative ways. You'll be part of a world-class team in a fast-paced environment that has the entrepreneurial feel of a start-up. This is an opportunity to operate and engineer systems on a massive scale, and to gain top-notch experience in cloud computing. You'll be surrounded by people who are smart, passionate about cloud computing, and believe that world class service is critical to customer success.

About Open Search---------------------------Open Search is a community-driven, Apache 2.0-licensed open-source search and analytics suite built on Apache Lucene. Since launching in July 2021, the project has delivered multiple major and minor releases with innovations in core search, vector search, and analytics capabilities. Our next phase focuses on transforming Open Search into an intelligent retrieval engine - one that meets the evolving needs of customers running search, analytics, and AI-powered workloads across structured, unstructured, and multi-modal data.

Key job responsibilities

As a Software Development Engineer on the Amazon Open search Security team, you will:
1. Design, develop and support security for a world-class platform serving individuals and businesses of all sizes
2. Building technologies that help customers strengthen their security posture and better meet security requirements in the AWS Cloud
3. Work at the core of the AWS Open Search service, with ample opportunities to contribute to open source
4. Work on challenging problems in areas such as data storage, query optimization, JVM performance optimization, security, machine learning and more.
5. You will join a team that values strong intuition, but seek metrics and other data sources to back up their assumptions.
6. Supporting plugin teams in meeting the security requirements for host logging, patching, and vulnerability detection.
7. Continually challenge what exists and explore what should be changed to best meet evolving customer needs
8. Participate in setting a vision and objectives for AWS Open Search in alignment with customer needs and market opportunities

About the teamAWS values diverse experiences. Even if you do not meet all of the preferred qualifications and skills listed in the job description, we encourage candidates to apply. If your career is just starting, hasn’t followed a traditional path, or includes alternative experiences, don’t let it stop you from applying.
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