Embedded Senior Software Engineer, Leo Customer Terminals

Leo is Amazons low Earth orbit satellite broadband network. Its mission is to deliver fast reliable internet to customers and communities around the world and weve designed the system with the capacity flexibility and performance to serve a wide range of customers from individual households to schools hospitals businesses government agencies and other organizations operating in locations without reliable connectivity.

In this role you will develop software for the Leo Customer Terminal embedded software engineering team. You will be responsible for the design implementation deployment and operations of the functions for Leo Customer Terminals.

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
- Develop embedded software for Customer Terminal devices for the Amazon Leo programs.
- Participate in all phases of SDLC including requirements design coding test deployment and production.
- Develop embedded software in Rust C C or other modern languages
- Have in-depth knowledge with real-time embedded software philosophies and practices
- Have expertise with Linux and RTOS
- In-depth experience with networking protocols such TCP/IP UDP DNS DHCP; control and data plane concepts. Familiarity with traffic classification filtering quality of service concepts and related standards.
- Familiarity with cryptography threat modeling and developing secure software.
- Support Customer Terminal deployments operations and debugging on production systems
- Technical writing of design specifications


A day in the life
You will be a leader within a team of embedded SDEs responsible for driving the design of embedded software for Leo customer terminal products. You will work in a collaborative environment with teams inside and outside of Amazon. You will mentor a team of software engineers on best practices while you guide your software designs from requirements gathering through mass production in a fast paced environment with rapidly changing priorities.

About the team
The Leo Customer Terminal Software Team develops and supports the devices that connect Leo subscribers to the Leo network. We provide software for the Leo Customer Terminal platform applications and underlying Linux system. We work hand in hand with hardware engineering product and operations teams to deliver commercial grade services for our Leo subscribers.

- 7 years of non-internship professional software development experience
- 7 years of programming with at least one software programming language experience
- 7 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

- 10 years of full software development life cycle including coding standards code reviews source control management build processes testing and operations experience
- Masters degree in computer science or equivalent
- Experience with version control systems and CI/CD pipeline implementation
- Bachelors degree or above in computer science or equivalent or experience with at least one general-purpose programming language such as Java Python C C# Go Rust or TypeScript
- Experience in automation testing

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Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $151300/year in our lowest geographic market up to $261500/year in our highest geographic market. Pay is based on a number of factors including market location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge skills and experience. Amazon is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered equity sign-on payments and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package in addition to a full range of medical financial and/or other benefits. For more information please visit This position will remain posted until filled. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.