Amazon
Software Development Engineer, Amazon Leo AI Foundations
$144K–$194K
Redmond, WA · Full-time · Posted Aug 17, 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.
- 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, builds, and operates distributed data and cloud systems that power Amazon Leo’s real-time analytics, metrics, and agentic AI capabilities.
What you'll do
- Build a scalable data lakehouse, OLAP analytics layer, and data ingestion and quality frameworks.
- Develop metrics, semantic models, federated queries, and orchestration workflows for analytics and AI retrieval.
- Architect globally distributed vector databases and hybrid search, while ensuring data compliance.
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
AI focus
Builds data and compute systems for training, inference, and agentic AI, including AI-oriented metrics models, semantic retrieval, and vector search.
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