Senior Software Dev Engineer, Leo AI Foundations

Amazon Inc

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Work type
On-site
Location
Redmond, WA
Salary
$168,100–$227,400 / yr
Posted
24 days ago
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Confirmed live yesterday

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Above market

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This role $198k
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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 · Senior Software Dev Engineer, Leo AI Foundations

Sr. Software Dev Engineer, Leo AI Foundations joins the Leo AI Foundations team to build the intelligent cloud backbone powering AI-driven decision making across a low Earth orbit satellite network. This role involves designing and operating globally distributed systems, including an S3-based Data Lakehouse, OLAP-based analytics layers, and vector database infrastructure for billions of embeddings. The engineer will develop new cloud services and APIs to facilitate agentic AI capabilities, manage metadata with automated classification, and implement hybrid search strategies combining dense and sparse representations. Key responsibilities include architecting scalable data ingestion patterns, creating centralized metrics repositories, and designing semantic data models to optimize retrieval. The role requires expertise in distributed systems, data lakehouse architectures, and applied machine learning using AWS technologies to solve complex problems regarding real-time network performance, routing, and user experience across satellites and ground gateways.

What you'll do

  • Architect and implement a scalable, cost-optimized S3-based Data Lakehouse for structured and unstructured data.
  • Build an OLAP-based analytics layer to provide low single-digit-second query responses.
  • Design and manage a distributed vector database infrastructure for high-speed retrieval of billions of embeddings.
  • Implement hybrid search strategies combining dense vectors with sparse representations for optimal semantic retrieval.
  • Establish automated data quality frameworks including staging-first policies and validation pipelines.
  • Develop intelligent orchestration for metrics generation workflows with comprehensive audit trails.
  • Design semantic data models that balance analytical performance with AI retrieval requirements.
  • Create 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, or granted asylum/refugee status for export control compliance.
  • 5+ years of non-internship professional software development experience.
  • 5+ years of programming with at least one software programming language.
  • 5+ years of leading design or architecture of new and existing systems including design patterns, reliability, and scaling.
  • Experience as a mentor, tech lead, or leading an engineering team.
  • 5+ years of full software development life cycle experience (preferred).
  • Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent (preferred).

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