SDE II: Global Data & AI Platforms

Amazon; Redmond (WA); On-site; USD 144,000 - 194,000; Full time

Job summary

Amazon Leo is building a fast, globally distributed data platform to support near real-time analytics and AI capabilities. The Software Development Engineer will design, implement, and operate scalable cloud services and data pipelines across satellites, gateways, and customer devices to deliver low-latency internet services.

The role focuses on architecting data lakehouse and analytics layers using AWS technologies, with emphasis on reliability, performance, and automated data quality controls.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of non-internship professional software development experience.
• 3+ years of non-internship design or architecture (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience.
• Experience programming with at least one software programming language.

Responsibilities

• Architect and implement scalable, cost-optimized S3-based Data Lakehouse for unified data.
• Architect scalable OLAP-based analytics layer with cost-performance optimization.
• Establish metadata management with automated data classification and lineage tracking.
• Design standardized data ingestion patterns with built-in quality controls and validation gates.
• Architect a centralized metrics repository serving as the source of truth for Leo metrics.
• Implement data quality frameworks with automated validation pipelines.
• Design extensible metrics schemas to support AI retrieval patterns.
• Develop orchestration for metrics generation workflows with audit trails.
• Lead semantic data model design balancing analytical performance and AI retrieval needs.
• Enable cross-domain federated query capabilities with advanced query optimization.
• Build a globally distributed vector DB for billions of embeddings with sub-100ms retrieval.
• Hybrid search strategies for semantic retrieval.
• Automated compliance validation frameworks meeting security standards.

Skills

Software development

System architecture

Programming languages

Education

Bachelor's degree in computer science

Job description

Amazon Leo is building a fast, globally distributed data platform to support near real-time analytics and AI capabilities. The Software Development Engineer will design, implement, and operate scalable cloud services and data pipelines across satellites, gateways, and customer devices to deliver low-latency internet services.

The role focuses on architecting data lakehouse and analytics layers using AWS technologies, with emphasis on reliability, performance, and automated data quality controls.