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Sr. Software Dev Engineer, Leo AI Foundations

Amazon· Software Development
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Redmond, WA$168.1k - $227.4kFull-timePosted yesterday

About the role

Senior Software Development Engineer responsible for designing, implementing, and operating globally distributed systems to support Leo AI Foundations, including a scalable data lakehouse, analytics layer, metadata management, and AI-enabled retrieval and orchestration capabilities for the 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 lakehouse designOLAP analyticsMetadata managementData ingestion patternsAI retrieval optimization

Benefits

  • Health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription) and life insurance options
  • 401(k) matching
  • paid time off
  • parential leave
  • Disability accommodations
  • Employee assistance programs
  • Flexible Spending Accounts
  • RSU and sign-on incentives
Last updated Oct 25, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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