Amazon
Software Development Engineer II, Leo AI Foundations
$144K–$194K
Redmond, WA · Full-time · Posted Jul 14, 2026
- Experience
- 3+ years in professional software development and 3+ years in system design or architecture; preferred: 3+ years across the full software development life cycle.
- Education
- 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 globally distributed data, analytics, and AI retrieval systems for Amazon Leo, including lakehouse, metrics, and vector database capabilities.
What you'll do
- Build scalable data lakehouse and OLAP analytics systems, including ingestion, metadata, data quality, and compliance frameworks.
- Develop centralized metrics repositories, semantic data models, and orchestration for metrics workflows.
- Architect federated querying and globally distributed vector search infrastructure for AI retrieval.
What they ask for
- 3+ years of non-internship professional software development experience.
- 3+ 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 agentic AI capabilities and supports AI retrieval through semantic data models, vector databases, and hybrid search.
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