Software Development Engineer III, Amazon Leo CT Anchor

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.

Developer Experience organization owns the entire path from commit to satellite. This is a unique opportunity to offer this scope to platform engineers.
We will build a unified platform that empower Leo engineers to see their code affect satellite operations within days not weeks months or a quarter. We will also provide a one-stop view enabling stakeholders to evaluate releases across all dimensions (acceptance performance security) reducing manual intervention accelerating approval and providing end-to-end traceability.

We are looking for a Senior 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 be responsible for developer experience across the entire Leo CICD and production services. You will work closely with engineering teams to deal with ambiguity identify and address common issues drive solutions and improve overall release quality reliability and operational excellence. You will build self-serve platform automation tools that enable Leo engineers to ship high quality software to space and ground rapidly securely and at scale.

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
A successful engineer in this role is :
- Highly analytical: You solve problems in ways that can be backed up with verifiable data. You focus on driving processes tools and statistical methods which support rational decision-making.
- Technically fearless: You arent satisfied by performing as expected and push the limits past conventional boundaries. Your dial goes to 11.
- Team obsessed: You help grow your team members to achieve outstanding results. You foster the creative atmosphere to let engineers innovate while holding them accountable for making smart decisions and delivering results.
- Youre ambitious yet humble: You recognize that theres always opportunity for improvement and use introspection and feedback from teammates and peers to raise the bar for your team.
- Engaged by ambiguity: Youre able to explore new problem spaces with unique constraints and thus non-obvious solutions; youre quick to identify any gaps in the team and the right person to fill them to best deliver value to customers.
- Own technical vision and direction: You identify problems and develop solutions; you embrace performance metrics and measurement techniques because they help you assess how well system-related services are running.
- Build and grow your team: Youll be a key contributor on an engineering team that delivers results.
- Invent and simplify: You will apply the first principal thinking into your work and find a simple solution to tackle the fundamental problem.

A day in the life
A Software Development Engineer works closely with Principal Engineer Sr. Principal Engineer to deal with ambiguity and define technical strategy. The engineer will also work with the release teams to deeply understand the current workflow use cases pain points inefficiency and come up with innovative simple solution.

- 7 years of non-internship professional software development experience
- 7 years of programming with at least one software programming language experience
- 7 years of leading design or architecture (design patterns reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems 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
- 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 - 168100.00 - 227400.00 USD annually