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
Designs and operates distributed data, analytics, and AI infrastructure for Amazon Leo, including lakehouse services, metrics systems, and low-latency vector retrieval.
What you'll do
- Build scalable data lakehouse and OLAP analytics systems, with ingestion, metadata, and data quality controls.
- Develop metrics workflows, semantic models, and federated query capabilities for analytics and AI retrieval.
- Architect distributed vector databases and hybrid search, and build cloud services and APIs supporting Leo AI Foundations.
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
143,700.00 - 194,400.00 USD annually (base salary)
Tools
AWS, S3, OLAP
AI focus
Builds data and compute infrastructure for AI training, inference, and agentic capabilities, including AI-oriented semantic retrieval, vector search, and network optimization.
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