Software Development Engineer, Amazon Leo Networking Software

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.

We are looking for SDE II engineer 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 Software Development Engineer 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.

- 2 years of non-internship design or architecture (design patterns reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
- 3 years of software development engineer or related occupational experience
- 3 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

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