Senior Software Engineer, Leo AI Foundations (Satellite)

Amazon Inc.; Redmond; On-site; AUD 239,000 - 324,000; Full time

Job summary

Amazon Leo in Redmond, WA is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to design, implement, and operate globally distributed systems enabling low-latency analytics and AI-enabled retrieval for Leo.

You will build scalable data lakehouse, analytics layers, and metadata frameworks using AWS technologies, with a strong emphasis on quality, security, and scalability within a challenging satellite data domain.

Qualifications

• 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.
• 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.

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.

Skills

5+ years software development

5+ years programming

5+ years architecture leadership

Mentor/tech lead experience

Education

Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent

Job description

Amazon Leo in Redmond, WA is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to design, implement, and operate globally distributed systems enabling low-latency analytics and AI-enabled retrieval for Leo.

You will build scalable data lakehouse, analytics layers, and metadata frameworks using AWS technologies, with a strong emphasis on quality, security, and scalability within a challenging satellite data domain.