Talent Groups

Talent Groups

Software Engineer

Austin, Texas, USA · full-time

Sponsorship not specified$120k-$125kDetected 50 days ago
JavaGoKotlinDistributed SystemsData StructuresAlgorithmsElasticsearchCI/CDLinuxDevOpsSite Reliability EngineeringControls

About the role

  • Contribute new functionality, performance improvements, and bug fixes to OpenSearch and associated plugins.
  • Participate in troubleshooting, performance tuning, and reliability initiatives for large-scale distributed systems.
  • Work with containerized environments and modern deployment platforms.

Responsibilities

  • Software Engineering & Platform Development Design, develop, and enhance OpenSearch-based solutions and supporting platform services.
  • Build and maintain internal control plane services that manage OpenSearch infrastructure at scale.
  • Develop scalable, reliable, and maintainable software using Java, Kotlin, or Golang.
  • Participate in architecture discussions and drive technical improvements across the platform.
  • Site Reliability & Operations Collaborate with DevOps and operations teams to investigate and resolve production incidents.
  • Analyze system behavior, identify bottlenecks, and implement optimization strategies to improve platform stability and efficiency.
  • Support highly available and mission-critical search infrastructure environments.
  • Drive best practices for search engine design, performance optimization, and scalability.
  • Support adoption and operational excellence for OpenSearch, Elasticsearch, and related search technologies.
  • DevOps & Automation Develop and improve CI/CD pipelines and deployment automation processes.

Requirements

  • Professional experience in software engineering, site reliability engineering, distributed systems, or search platform development.
  • Experience analyzing performance issues and implementing scalability improvements.
  • Familiarity with modern DevOps practices including: CI/CD pipelines Containerization and orchestration platforms Version control systems Monitoring and observability tools
  • Search Platform Expertise Serve as a technical expert for OpenSearch and search-related technologies.
  • OpenSearch Elasticsearch Apache Solr Strong knowledge of Linux/Unix systems, operating system internals, and system-level troubleshooting.
  • Familiarity with modern DevOps practices including:

Compensation

  • $120k-$125k

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