Amazon
Sr. Software Dev Engineer, Leo AI Foundations
$168K–$227K
Redmond, WA · Senior · Full-time · Posted Jun 16, 2026
- Experience
- 5+ years in each of the three specified software development, programming, and design/architecture areas; experience as a mentor, tech lead or leading an engineering team.
- 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 cloud systems and agentic AI capabilities for real-time monitoring, diagnosis, and optimization of Amazon Leo’s satellite network and supporting infrastructure.
What you'll do
- Architect and build autonomous agents, workflows, and conversational interfaces for operational intelligence, anomaly triage, and system optimization.
- Develop scalable lakehouse, analytics, metrics, and vector database infrastructure for operational data and AI retrieval.
- Create agent evaluation, testing, monitoring, data quality, and compliance frameworks.
What they ask for
- 5+ years of non-internship professional software development experience.
- 5+ years of programming 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 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, RAG, OLAP, reinforcement learning, vector database
AI focus
Build agentic AI systems for autonomous operational monitoring, diagnosis, triage, and optimization; develop RAG and hybrid search, natural language interfaces, and reinforcement-learning-based agents.
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