compLogoOpenSearch EngineerCompany: IncedoHybridNew York, NY, USA
Job Title: OpenSearch Engineer
Location: New York, NY
Position Overview
We are seeking a highly skilled OpenSearch Engineer with strong experience in AWS, .NET, or Python to design, build, optimize, and manage search and analytics solutions. The ideal candidate will have hands-on expertise with distributed systems, large-scale search infrastructures, and application development, while supporting enterprise-grade observability and indexing pipelines.
Key Responsibilities
  • Design, deploy, and manage OpenSearch clusters for high availability, scalability, and performance.
  • Create and optimize index mappings, analyzers, tokenizers, relevance models, and search queries.
  • Implement OpenSearch ingestion pipelines using Logstash, FluentBit, Beats, or custom ETL.
  • Architect and manage cloud infrastructure using:
  • Amazon OpenSearch Service
  • EC2, S3, Lambda, IAM, CloudWatch, Kinesis, MSK
  • Automate provisioning using Terraform/CloudFormation (nice to have).
  • Implement secure access controls, VPC design, and encryption strategies.
  • Build real-time streaming pipelines for logs, metrics, and application data.
  • Develop backend services, APIs, and data pipelines in Python and .NET (C#).
  • Write microservices that interface with OpenSearch queries and aggregations.
  • Build automation tools for cluster maintenance, indexing, and monitoring.
  • Integrate OpenSearch with enterprise applications using SDKs/REST APIs.
Required Skills & Qualifications
  • 6–8 years of hands-on experience with OpenSearch (or Elasticsearch).
  • Strong knowledge of:
  • Search indexing concepts
  • Query DSL
  • Aggregations
  • Relevance tuning
  • Solid experience with AWS cloud services.
  • Strong programming skills in:
  • Python
  • .NET/C#
  • Understanding of distributed systems and cluster architecture.
  • Experience with CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps, Jenkins).
  • Strong troubleshooting, analytical, and performance optimization skills.
  • Knowledge of containers (Docker) and orchestration (Kubernetes/EKS) is a plus.