Amazon
Sr. Software Dev Engineer, Leo AI Foundations
$168K–$227K
Redmond, WA · Senior · Full-time · Posted Aug 18, 2026
- Experience
- 5+ years for software development, programming, and system design or architecture; full software development life cycle experience is preferred at 5+ years.
- Education
- Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent (preferred).
- Visa sponsorship
- Due to export control laws and regulations, 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, analytics, and AI infrastructure for Amazon Leo, enabling low-latency network operations and agentic AI capabilities.
What you'll do
- Build a scalable S3-based data lakehouse, OLAP analytics layer, and centralized metrics repository with data quality, metadata, and compliance controls.
- Develop semantic data models, federated queries, and orchestration for metrics generation and AI retrieval.
- Architect globally distributed vector databases and hybrid search for low-latency semantic retrieval.
What they ask for
- 5+ years of non-internship professional software development experience.
- 5+ years of programming experience with at least one software programming language.
- 5+ years leading design or architecture of new and existing systems, including design patterns, reliability, and scaling.
- Experience as a mentor, tech lead, or engineering team lead.
Nice to have
- 5+ years of full software development life cycle experience.
- Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent.
Pay
168,100.00 - 227,400.00 USD annually (base salary)
Tools
AWS, S3, OLAP
AI focus
Builds AI foundations for training, inference, agentic intelligence, and network optimization; supports AI retrieval through semantic models, vector databases, and hybrid search.
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