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Senior/Principal Engineer – OpenSearch

DTEX · Remote (US) · Remote

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About DTEX

Only DTEX unifies DLP, behavioral analytics and user activity monitoring with AI to stop insider risks from becoming data breaches. Backed by Norwest.

About the role

DTEX is seeking a highly skilled and experienced Senior Engineer – OpenSearch to join our engineering team. In this role, you will lead the development and optimization of large-scale OpenSearch clusters, contribute to our Insider Risk Management (IRM) and Data Loss Prevention (DLP) products, and actively engage with the open-source community. You’ll work closely with internal teams, clients, and global collaborators to drive innovation in search technologies.

What they're looking for

  • Minimum 10 years of software engineering experience
  • Bachelor's degree in computer science or related field
  • Deep expertise in OpenSearch internals while handling terabytes of data across multiple nodes
  • Proficiency in data management: ingestion pipelines, field mappings, cluster integrity, and search/aggregation tuning
  • Proven experience migrating large-scale Elasticsearch 6.x clustered deployments to OpenSearch 2.x or above
  • Strong proficiency in Python and good understanding of JVM ecosystems
More about this role

DTEX is seeking a highly skilled and experienced Senior Engineer – OpenSearch to join our engineering team. In this role, you will lead the development and optimization of large-scale OpenSearch clusters, contribute to our Insider Risk Management (IRM) and Data Loss Prevention (DLP) products, and actively engage with the open-source community. You’ll work closely with internal teams, clients, and global collaborators to drive innovation in search technologies.

Key Responsibilities

  • Serve as a consultant, advisor, and mentor to internal and external search practitioners.
  • Attend client and internal meetings to align technical solutions with business needs.
  • Actively contribute to the OpenSearch community and participate in public forums.
  • Collaborate with cross-functional teams and open-source contributors to drive innovation.
  • Design and implement new features, enhancements, and bug fixes for DTEX’s IRM and AI Risk Management products.
  • Manage and fine-tune large-scale OpenSearch clusters with terabytes of data.
  • Apply recommended development and operational expertise to cloud-hosted OpenSearch environments.
  • Rapidly iterate on solutions while maintaining high quality...

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