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Amazon · 1 day ago

Sr. Software Dev Engineer, Leo AI Foundations

Redmond, Washington, USA

Full-time

Onsite

Senior Level

$151K/yr - $262K/yr

5+ years exp

Amazon is a leading technology company, and they are seeking a Software Engineer to design, implement, and operate globally distributed systems for their Leo AI Foundations project. The role involves building cloud services and APIs to facilitate intelligent software operation across Leo devices, ensuring high-quality internet service and AI capabilities.

Artificial Intelligence (AI)DeliveryE-CommerceFoundational AIRetail

No H1B

U.S. Citizen Only

Responsibilities

Architect and implement a scalable, cost-optimized S3-based Data Lakehouse that unifies structured and unstructured data from disparate sources

Architect and implement a scalable, cost-performance-optimized OLAP-based analytics layer

Establish metadata management with automated data classification and lineage tracking

Design and enforce standardized data ingestion patterns with built-in quality controls and validation gates

Architect a centralized metrics repository that becomes the source of truth for all Leo metrics

Implement robust data quality frameworks with staging-first policies and automated validation pipelines

Design extensible metrics schemas that support complex analytical queries while optimizing for AI retrieval patterns

Develop intelligent orchestration for metrics generation workflows with comprehensive audit trails

Lead the design of semantic data models that balance analytical performance with AI retrieval requirements

Implement cross-domain federated query capabilities with sophisticated query optimization techniques

Architect a globally distributed vector database infrastructure capable of managing billions of embeddings with consistent sub-100ms retrieval times

Design and implement hybrid search strategies combining dense vectors with sparse representations for optimal semantic retrieval

Establish automated compliance validation frameworks ensuring data handling meets Amazon's security standards

Qualification

Software DevelopmentProgramming LanguagesSystem DesignData Lakehouse ArchitectureMentorship

Required

5+ years of non-internship professional software development experience

5+ years of programming with at least one software programming language experience

5+ years of leading design or architecture (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience

Experience as a mentor, tech lead or leading an engineering team

Preferred

5+ years of full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations experience

Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent