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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About Amazon Inc

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

As a Sr. Software Dev Engineer, Leo AI Foundations, you will join the team building the intelligent cloud backbone for Amazon’s low Earth orbit satellite network. You will design, implement, and operate globally distributed systems to enable near real-time analytics and agentic AI capabilities across satellites, ground gateways, and customer terminals. Your daily responsibilities include architecting S3-based data lakehouses, developing OLAP-based analytics layers, and managing metadata with automated lineage tracking. You will build robust data quality frameworks, design semantic data models for AI retrieval, and develop a globally distributed vector database infrastructure to manage billions of embeddings. To succeed, you must utilize AWS technologies and expert knowledge in distributed systems, data lakehouse architectures, and applied machine learning to solve complex problems regarding network performance, routing, and real-time user experience within the space and ground systems domain.

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 global 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.
  • Develop automated data quality frameworks including staging-first policies and validation pipelines.
  • Create semantic data models that balance analytical performance with AI retrieval requirements.
  • Design and implement cross-domain federated query capabilities using advanced optimization techniques.
  • Establish metadata management systems with automated data classification and lineage tracking.

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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