💼 Full-Time Position

Principal Engineer, OpenSearch

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Amazon Development Center U.S., Inc.
📍 Bellevue, Washington, United States
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Location
Bellevue, United States
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Posted
April 12, 2026
Type
Full-Time
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Full-Time Opportunity: This is a permanent, full-time position with a competitive package and real career growth potential.

Job Description

We are seeking a Principal Engineer to build the next generation of OpenSearch's Search Engine based on Lucene. You will architect and build the next generation Search engine with focus on nextgen Lucene capabilities in core search and vector search. This role requires modernizing the Search engine to enable performant query processing for high scale semantic search workloads and liaising with Lucene innovations for search processing and search relevance.

OpenSearch is a community-driven, Apache 2.0-licensed open source search and analytics suite based on Apache Lucene. Since launching in July 2021, we have released multiple major and minor versions with innovations in core search capabilities. Our next phase focuses on transforming the query engine architecture to meet the evolving needs of customers running search and analytics workloads.



Key job responsibilities
You will lead technical strategy and execution for OpenSearch's core query engine, working...