Senior Software Engineer, Customer Terminal Network & Fleet Management

Amazon Leo is Amazons low Earth orbit satellite network. Our mission is to deliver fast reliable internet connectivity to customers beyond the reach of existing networks. From individual households to schools hospitals businesses and government agencies Amazon Leo will serve people and 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.

- 5 years of non-internship professional software development experience
- 5 years of leading design or architecture (design patterns reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
- 5 years of programming with at least one software programming language experience
- Experience as a mentor tech lead or leading an engineering team

- 7 years of full software development life cycle including coding standards code reviews source control management build processes testing and operations experience
- 7 years of programming using a modern programming language such as Java C or C# including object-oriented design experience
- Experience in embedded development in C/C
- Knowledge of system performance memory management and parallel computing principles
- Masters degree in computer science or equivalent
- 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

Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status disability or other legally protected status.

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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. Learn more about our benefits at WA Redmond - 168100.00 - 227400.00 USD annually