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: 78 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 · Senior Software Dev Engineer, Leo AI Foundations

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Sr. Software Dev Engineer, Leo AI Foundations will join the Leo team to design, implement, and operate globally distributed systems for a low Earth orbit satellite network. The role focuses on building a near real-time analytics layer or lakehouse to support agentic AI capabilities and high-quality internet service. Key responsibilities include architecting an S3-based Data Lakehouse, developing OLAP-based analytics layers, establishing metadata management, and designing federated query capabilities. You will also build a distributed vector database infrastructure for billions of embeddings and implement hybrid search strategies. The position requires expertise in AWS technologies, software engineering best practices, and advanced programming. Core tasks involve creating cloud services and APIs to orchestrate the simulation of software on satellites, ground gateways, and customer terminals while ensuring robust data quality frameworks and automated compliance validation across all systems.

Skills

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

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 near real-time query responses.
Design and manage metadata systems with automated data classification and lineage tracking.
Develop robust data quality frameworks featuring staging-first policies and automated validation pipelines.
Architect a globally distributed vector database infrastructure for high-speed retrieval of billions of embeddings.
Implement hybrid search strategies combining dense and sparse representations for optimal semantic retrieval.
Design semantic data models that balance analytical performance with agentic AI requirements.
Build cloud services and APIs to orchestrate software simulations on satellite and ground hardware.

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 is required.
5+ years of programming experience with at least one software programming language is required.
5+ years of experience leading design or architecture of new and existing systems is required.
Experience as a mentor, tech lead, or leading an engineering team is required.
5+ years of full software development life cycle experience is preferred.
A Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent is preferred.

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