Software Development Engineer, Kuiper Data Platform

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.

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 is for a Software Development Engineer who will design implement and operate globally distributed systems that enable Leo to achieve low single-digit-second query responses within a near real-time analytics layer or lakehouse and to support agentic AI capabilities on top. Youll build these systems using the latest AWS technologies and best-in-industry software engineering practices.

- Architect and implement a scalable cost-performance-optimized OLAP-based analytics layer.
- Architect a centralized metrics repository that becomes the source of truth for all Leo metrics.
- Establish metadata management with automated data classification and lineage tracking.
- Design and enforce standardized data ingestion patterns with built-in quality controls and validation gates.
- Design extensible metrics schemas that support complex analytical queries while optimizing for AI retrieval patterns.
- Design semantic data models that balance analytical performance with AI retrieval requirements.
- Implement robust data quality frameworks with staging-first policies and automated validation pipelines.
- Develop intelligent orchestration for metrics generation workflows with comprehensive audit trails.
- Implement cross-domain federated query capabilities with sophisticated query optimization techniques.
- Implement hybrid search strategies combining dense vectors with sparse representations for optimal semantic retrieval.
- Establish automated compliance validation frameworks ensuring data handling meets Amazons security standards.


A day in the life
This role is for a Software Development Engineer who will build new cloud services and APIs that facilitate and orchestrate the Leo AI Foundations - enabling intelligent software operation across Leo devices such as satellites ground gateways and customer terminals. You will design and deliver low-latency highly scalable architectures that are critical to providing high-quality internet service operational insights and AI capabilities to customers.

About the team
Our team will design implement and operate the systems that direct the Kuiper network to optimize and manage throughput and quality of services. These systems include Low Earth Orbit satellites customer terminals gateways Cloud services and terrestrial network infrastructure that connects into public and private networks.

- 3 years of non-internship professional software development experience
- 2 years of non-internship design or architecture (design patterns reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
- 1 years of designing and developing large-scale multi-tiered multi-threaded embedded or distributed software applications tools systems and services using: C# C Java or Perl experience
- Experience programming with at least one modern language such as Java C or C# including object-oriented design

- 3 years of full software development life cycle including coding standards code reviews source control management build processes testing and operations experience
- Bachelors degree or equivalent

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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 - 143700.00 - 194400.00 USD annually