Software Development Engineer

About the role

Amazon Leo is an initiative to increase global broadband access through a constellation of 3,236 satellites in low Earth orbit (LEO). Its mission is to bring fast, affordable broadband to unserved and underserved communities around the world. Amazon Leo will help close the digital divide by delivering fast, affordable broadband to a wide range of customers, including consumers, businesses, government agencies, and other organizations operating in places without reliable connectivity.

As a Software Development Engineer you will own the development, implementation, and test of the toolings and services on the Software Lab team. You will work with engineering teams across ground and space systems, to understand how the system functions and deliver integrated solution to improve the lab health. You will be focused on driving automation and operational excellence of the full technical stack.

The ideal candidate will be detail oriented, have strong organizational skills, able to work independently, and maintain professionalism under pressure. You should have deep knowledge of software engineering practices, understand how software and hardware systems interact, and can drive design and implementation of operational execution of objectives in complex systems.

Export Control Requirement

Due to applicable export control laws and regulations, candidates must be a U.S. citizen or national, U.S. permanent resident (i.e., current Green Card holder), or lawfully admitted into the U.S. as a refugee or granted asylum.

Key job responsibilities

• Design, develop, and validate new data plane and control plane features end-to-end, from stakeholder requirements gathering through production-ready delivery with comprehensive test coverage.
• Architect and maintain Infrastructure as Code (IaC) for the software lab, including container image pipelines, deployment orchestration, automated runbook workflows, and self-healing mechanisms with health checks and rollback.
• Build and extend software test infrastructure services spanning fleet automation, scheduling, and resource reservation. Drive continuous improvement of service KPIs including availability, uptime, and latency.
• Lead team-level security initiatives including fine-grained access control, vulnerability triage across fleet and software dependencies, and application security reviews.
• Champion operational excellence by troubleshooting production issues, grooming backlog requirements, and delivering features through iterative sprint cycles.
• Mentor engineers on cloud architecture patterns, infrastructure best practices, and scalable system design.

Basic 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
• 3+ years of full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations experience
• Bachelor's degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related field
• Experience programming with at least one modern language such as Java, C++, or C# including object-oriented design

Preferred Qualifications

• 5+ years of contributing to new and current systems architecture and design (architecture, design patterns, reliability and scaling) experience
• Experience with test driven development and establishing unit test infrastructures
• Experience with dependency injection, API modeling, and clean layering (separating API endpoints, business-logic orchestration, and downstream service clients)
• Experience programming in Rust

Additional information

Our inclusive culture empowers Amazonians to deliver the best results for our customers. If the country/region you're applying in isn't listed, please contact your Recruiting Partner.

Pay and benefits

The base salary range for this position is listed below. Your Amazon package will include sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience, qualifications, and location. Amazon also offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans, EAP, Mental Health Support, Medical Advice Line, Flexible Spending Accounts, Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage), 401(k) matching, paid time off, and parental leave.

USA, WA, Redmond - 143,700.00 - 194,400.00 USD annually