Sr. OpenSearch & Elasticsearch Platform Engineer - Sunnyvale, CA /Austin, TX – Onsite

[Sandeep Gurindapalli]

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Job: Sr. OpenSearch & Elasticsearch Platform Engineer

Location: Sunnyvale, CA /Austin, TX – Onsite

Duration: 6 Months 

Responsibilities:

• 6+ years of hands-on experience administering Elasticsearch and/or OpenSearch in production environments.
• Strong proficiency in Java and Python, with demonstrated ability to read, debug, and modify existing application code.
• Solid understanding of distributed systems concepts: sharding, replication, consistency, cluster topology.
• Experience with AWS services (EC2, IAM, VPC, S3, CloudWatch).
• Experience managing clusters on at least one third-party/non-AWS cloud provider (e.g., GCP).  
• Hands-on experience with REST APIs, Query DSL, and index management (ILM/ISM policies).
• Practical experience using AI-assisted development tools (Claude, Copilot, or similar) to improve engineering velocity and code quality.
• Experience with CI/CD tools and Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform, Ansible, CloudFormation, or similar).
• Familiarity with containerization and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes).
• Strong debugging, troubleshooting, and performance-tuning skills.
• Experience with monitoring/observability tools (Prometheus, Grafana, CloudWatch, or similar).
• Solid understanding of Git-based version control and code review workflows.