Amazon
Software Dev Engineer, Amazon Leo AI Foundations
$144K–$194K
Redmond, WA · Full-time · Posted Aug 18, 2026
- Experience
- 3+ years of non-internship professional software development; 2+ years of non-internship system design or architecture experience; preferred: 3+ years of full software development life cycle experience.
- Education
- Preferred: Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent.
- Visa sponsorship
- Candidates must be a U.S. citizen or national, U.S. permanent resident (current Green Card holder), or lawfully admitted into the U.S. as a refugee or granted asylum.
About the job
Build and operate globally distributed cloud data and analytics systems that power Amazon Leo’s low-latency services and AI capabilities.
What you'll do
- Design and implement a scalable S3-based data lakehouse, OLAP analytics layer, and centralized metrics repository.
- Build data ingestion, quality, metadata, orchestration, and federated query capabilities.
- Develop distributed vector database infrastructure and hybrid search for AI retrieval.
What they ask for
- 3+ years of non-internship professional software development experience.
- 2+ years of non-internship experience designing or architecting new and existing systems, including design patterns, reliability, and scaling.
- Experience programming with at least one software programming language.
Nice to have
- 3+ years of full software development life cycle experience.
- Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent.
Pay
USD 143,700.00 - 194,400.00 annually (base salary)
Tools
AWS, S3, OLAP
AI focus
Build data and compute foundations for AI training, inference, agentic capabilities, and real-time decision-making; optimize data models and vector search for AI retrieval.
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