Amazon
Sr. Software Dev Engineer, Leo AI Foundations
$168K–$227K
Redmond, WA · Senior · Full-time · Posted Aug 18, 2026
- Experience
- 5+ years for each of the three stated experience requirements; no alternative stated.
- 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, builds, and operates distributed data, analytics, and AI foundations for Amazon Leo’s satellite network.
What you'll do
- Build a scalable S3-based lakehouse, OLAP analytics layer, and centralized metrics repository.
- Develop data ingestion, quality, metadata, compliance, and federated-query capabilities.
- Build distributed vector search and AI-oriented systems supporting low-latency analytics and agentic capabilities.
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 the 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
Build data and compute systems for AI training, inference, and agentic capabilities, including vector databases and hybrid semantic search to support real-time network optimization, routing, and user experience.
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