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Sr. Software Dev Engineer, Leo AI Foundations

Amazon· Software Development
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Hybrid (Redmond, WA)$168.1k - $227.4kfull-timePosted 1w ago

About the role

Senior software development engineer role focusing on designing, implementing, and operating globally distributed data and analytics systems to support Leo AI Foundations and near real-time AI capabilities on Amazon’s Leo satellite network.

Responsibilities

  • Architect and implement a scalable, cost-optimized S3-based Data Lakehouse that unifies structured and unstructured data from disparate sources.
  • Architect and implement a scalable, cost-performance-optimized OLAP-based analytics layer
  • Establish metadata management with automated data classification and lineage tracking.
  • Design and enforce standardized data ingestion patterns with built-in quality controls and validation gates.
  • Architect a centralized metrics repository that becomes the source of truth for all Leo metrics.
  • Implement robust data quality frameworks with staging-first policies and automated validation pipelines.
  • Design extensible metrics schemas that support complex analytical queries while optimizing for AI retrieval patterns.
  • Develop intelligent orchestration for metrics generation workflows with comprehensive audit trails.
  • Lead the design of semantic data models that balance analytical performance with AI retrieval requirements.
  • Implement cross-domain federated query capabilities with sophisticated query optimization techniques.
  • Architect a globally distributed vector database infrastructure capable of managing billions of embeddings with consistent sub-100ms retrieval times.
  • Design and implement hybrid search strategies combining dense vectors with sparse representations for optimal semantic retrieval.
  • Establish automated compliance validation frameworks ensuring data handling meets Amazon's security standards.

Qualifications

  • 5+ years of non-internship professional software development experience
  • 5+ years of programming with at least one software programming language experience
  • 5+ years of leading design or architecture (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
  • Experience as a mentor, tech lead or leading an engineering team

Skills

Required:Data LakehouseOLAP analyticsMetadata managementData ingestion patternsVector databases

Benefits

  • health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription)
  • Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans
  • EAP, Mental Health Support, Medical Advice Line
  • 401(k) matching
  • paid time off
  • parental leave
  • RSUs (restricted stock units) and sign-on payments included in package
Last updated Oct 25, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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