Software Development Engineer II, Leo AI Foundations

Amazon Inc

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Work type: On-site
Location: Redmond, WA
Salary: $143,700–$194,400 / yr
Posted: 104 days ago
Freshness: Confirmed live yesterday
Nearby: 99+ roles within 25 mi

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Amazon Inc. is the world''s largest e-commerce and cloud computing company, operating the Amazon marketplace, AWS cloud platform, Prime subscription services, Alexa voice AI, and logistics infrastructure. Industry: E-Commerce & Cloud Computing

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TL;DR · Software Development Engineer II, Leo AI Foundations

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The Software Development Engineer II, Leo AI Foundations will join the team responsible for Amazon’s low Earth orbit satellite network. This role involves designing, implementing, and operating globally distributed systems to achieve low single-digit-second query responses within a near real-time analytics layer or lakehouse to support agentic AI capabilities. Key responsibilities include architecting a scalable S3-based Data Lakehouse, building an OLAP-based analytics layer, and developing a globally distributed vector database infrastructure for billions of embeddings. You will implement hybrid search strategies, federated query capabilities, and automated data quality frameworks. The role requires proficiency in software programming languages and experience with AWS technologies, design patterns, and reliability scaling to solve complex data ingestion, metadata management, and high-performance semantic retrieval problems for satellite communications.

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Skills

AWS S3 Data Lakehouse OLAP Vector Database Distributed Systems Metadata Management Hybrid Search Source Control Management Data Quality Frameworks

What you'll do

Architect and implement a scalable, cost-optimized S3-based Data Lakehouse for structured and unstructured data.
Build a scalable, cost-performance-optimized OLAP-based analytics layer.
Design and enforce standardized data ingestion patterns with built-in quality controls and validation gates.
Architect a globally distributed vector database infrastructure for managing billions of embeddings with sub-100ms retrieval.
Design and implement hybrid search strategies combining dense vectors with sparse representations for semantic retrieval.
Develop cloud services and APIs to orchestrate software simulations on satellites, ground gateways, and customer terminals.
Implement cross-domain federated query capabilities with sophisticated query optimization techniques.
Establish automated compliance validation frameworks to ensure data handling meets security standards.

What we're looking for

Candidates must be a U.S. citizen, national, permanent resident, refugee, or granted asylum.
3+ years of non-internship professional software development experience.
3+ years of non-internship design or architecture experience for new and existing systems.
Experience programming with at least one software programming language.
3+ years of full software development life cycle experience (preferred).
Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent (preferred).
Export control laws and regulations, candidates.

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