Sr. Software Dev Engineer in Test, Leo Anchor

We are looking for Sr. SDET engineers with experience in supporting mission-critical applications who are excited about building solutions that enhance automation stability and release processes across multiple systems. You will work closely with engineering teams to identify and address common issues drive solutions and improve overall release quality and reliability. This role requires hands-on engagement troubleshooting and automation development. You will work within the ANCHOR team managing release processes and automation to maintain a seamless and efficient pipeline. The team operates an on-call support rotation and you will be responsible for maintaining release quality and pipeline health. Your work will directly impact Leos ability to deliver high-quality reliable releases efficiently.

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
This role sits at the intersection of test automation CI/CD release engineering and operational reliability.

1. CI/CD Pipeline Ownership & Stability
- Own the daily build test and release pipelines end to end
- Monitor pipeline health stability and performance
- Diagnose and resolve pipeline failures (build test infra dependency issues)
- Reduce flaky tests and nondeterministic failures
- Improve pipeline speed reliability and signal-to-noise ratio

2. Release Engineering & Software Delivery
- Manage software build and release activities across environments
- Track releases validate readiness and enforce quality gates
- Support complex multi-stage release processes
- Ensure releases meet quality compliance and reliability standards
- Partner with Dev QA and Ops during releases and hotfixes

3. Test Automation at Scale
- Design implement and maintain automated test frameworks (API integration system end-to-end)
- Integrate automated tests seamlessly into CI/CD pipelines
- Ensure test coverage aligns with risk not just code coverage
- Build tooling to improve test execution efficiency and observability

4. Operational Support & Incident Response
- Respond to pipeline release and production-impacting issues
- Participate in triage on-call rotations and incident resolution
- Debug high-complexity failures across code infrastructure and environments
- Drive root cause analysis (RCA) and preventative fixes

5. Reliability & Continuous Improvement
- Create automated solutions to improve reliability scalability and efficiency
- Identify systemic issues and eliminate manual processes
- Introduce metrics dashboards and alerts for build/test/release health
- Champion best practices in testing automation and release management

6. Technical Leadership & Collaboration (Senior-Level Expectation)
- Influence architecture and design for testability and reliability
- Mentor junior engineers on automation and CI/CD practices
- Partner closely with DevOps Platform and Infrastructure teams
- Drive standards and long-term quality strategy

A day in the life
A Sr. SDET works closely with development QA and DevOps teams to ensure the reliability and quality of daily builds automated tests and release pipelines. They spend much of their time monitoring CI/CD pipelines troubleshooting build and test failures supporting software releases and improving test automation and operational tooling. This role is hands-on and execution-focused with opportunities to grow toward technical ownership and leadership.

On a typical day you will:
- Monitor daily builds automated test runs and CI/CD pipeline health
- Investigate and resolve build test and pipeline failures
- Support software build and release activities across environments
- Participate in issue triage and help resolve operational or release-blocking issues
- Analyze failures identify root causes and implement fixes to prevent recurrence
- Develop maintain and improve automated test solutions integrated into pipelines
- Work with developers and DevOps engineers to improve testability reliability and release efficiency
- Contribute to documentation dashboards and metrics for build and release tracking

About the team
The ANCHOR team (Automated Navigation and Control of Releases) is focused on streamlining and standardizing the release process. This team manages releases for all Payload LRUs including Ground LRUs ensuring consistent release quality pipeline health and process efficiency. The teams charter includes creating release automation documenting changes tracking versioned releases and supporting the transition to a common versionset structure as a long-term strategy. ANCHOR operates autonomously focused on improving time-to-release automation reliability and release transparency.

- 4 years of non-internship professional software development testing experience
- 3 years of software QA testing work with writing the test plans use cases and issue reports experience
- Experience managing programs across cross-functional teams building processes and coordinating release schedules
- Experience programming with at least one modern language such as Java C or C# including object-oriented design

- 3 years of software development and delivery experience
- Experience in penetration testing and exploitability-focused vulnerability assessment

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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.