Software Development Engineer, Amazon Leo Ground Systems Engineering

Amazon Leo is an initiative to launch a constellation of Low Earth Orbit satellites that will provide low-latency high-speed broadband connectivity to unserved and under-served communities around the world. We are looking for a Software Development Engineer to help us build this service from the ground up.

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
Design develop deploy and support software that keeps a globally deployed fleet of ground terminals healthy and available.
Build and scale data pipelines and monitoring that enable condition monitoring predictive maintenance and automated remediation.
Develop automation for the integration test calibration and release of ground systems software.
Own the full software development lifecycle including design testing deployment mission integration and operational support.


A day in the life
In this role as a Software Development Engineer you will design implement optimize and operate systems critical to the uptime and performance of Leo ground terminals. Your contributions will have a direct impact on customers around the world.

About the team
The Leo Ground Systems Engineering team is responsible for the development deployment and long-term performance optimization of the Leo satellite Gateway and Telemetry Tracking and Command (TT&C) terminals located around the world. These terminals include full-motion parabolic antennas radio frequency spectrum monitoring terminal monitoring and control and fault management systems. These software-driven distributed systems form the communications backbone for the Leo constellation and must provide the world-class reliability uptime and performance our customers expect from Amazon.

- 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
- Experience programming with at least one software programming language

- 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
- Experience with distributed systems and a mix of hardware/software troubleshooting
- Experience building data pipelines or services on AWS (e.g. DynamoDB record streaming data lakes) with Python

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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