Amazon
Sr. Software Dev Engineer, Leo AI Foundations
$168K–$227K
Redmond, WA · Senior · Full-time · Posted Jul 14, 2026
- Experience
- 5+ years for each of the three stated experience requirements; full software development life cycle experience is a preferred qualification.
- 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 distributed data, analytics, and AI retrieval systems for Amazon Leo, including a lakehouse, metrics platform, and vector search infrastructure.
What you'll do
- Build scalable data lakehouse, OLAP analytics, metadata, ingestion, and data-quality systems.
- Develop metrics workflows, semantic data models, federated queries, and hybrid search for AI retrieval.
- Architect globally distributed vector databases and automated compliance validation.
What they ask for
- 5+ years of non-internship professional software development experience.
- 5+ years programming in 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 leading an engineering team.
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
Supports agentic AI capabilities through AI-oriented metrics schemas, semantic data models, vector infrastructure, and hybrid semantic retrieval.
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