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Senior Software Development Engineer, Leo Manufacturing Software Systems

Amazon Leo

Base salary $168,100  to $227,400

Employer-published annual base salary, USD. Advertised base range in Bellevue, WA

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  • LocationBellevue, WA
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About this job

Amazon Leo is Amazon’s low Earth orbit satellite broadband network. Its mission is to deliver fast, reliable internet to customers and communities around the world, and we’ve designed the system with the capacity, flexibility, and performance to serve a wide range of customers, from individual households to schools, hospitals, businesses, government agencies, and other 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.

Manufacturing Software Systems (MSS) is seeking a Senior Software Development Engineer who will help solve a variety of technical challenges related to manufacturing satellites, ground equipment, and associated ASICs. You will play an active role in accelerating the manufacturing of satellites to quickly build the Amazon Satellite Constellation. You will tackle challenging, novel situations and will have the opportunity to work with multiple technical teams spanning a variety of domains: software, hardware, networks, RF, embedded, real-time, distributed, as well as industrial automation systems.

You will design and develop manufacturing software to drive the assembly, calibration, testing, and provisioning of satellites. You will collaborate with teams from manufacturing engineering, product engineering, and security engineering to identify requirements and design manufacturing software. You will design and develop the end-to-end system capabilities required for manufacturing orchestration across factory production lines.

Along the way, we guarantee that you'll learn a ton, have fun, and make a positive impact on millions of people.

Key job responsibilities

  • Architect and build software and standardized manufacturing test stations used for functional test, calibration and provisioning of satellites.
  • Develop software infrastructure to support test case execution
  • Architect and build automation to support development (CI/CD)
  • Align with various stakeholders on software requirements
  • Document software requirements from users
  • Support manufacturing as well as new product development
  • Enable automated data collection, data analysis
  • Deliver end-user documents
  • Own and execute software quality and release process
  • Build the end-to-end system capabilities required for the orchestration of manufacturing across factory production lines
  • Collaborate with satellite component teams to develop and maintain secure manufacturing software systems, implementing chain-of-custody protocols to protect intellectual property and manufacturing assets.

A day in the life

In this role as Senior Software Development Engineer, you will be actively engaged in developing Kuiper’s secure manufacturing software system and orchestration software capabilities. These products enable industrial automation for the manufacturing of the Kuiper satellite fleet and supporting ground equipment. You will engage with an experienced cross-disciplinary team to develop, qualify, produce, and deploy solutions and products enabling Kuiper’s global network.

About the team

In this role as a Senior Software Development Engineer, you will be actively engaged in developing Kuiper's secure manufacturing software system and orchestration software capabilities. These products enable industrial automation for the manufacturing of the Kuiper satellite fleet and its supporting ground equipment. You will engage with an experienced cross-disciplinary team to develop, qualify, produce, and deploy solutions and products enabling Kuiper's global network.

Basic Qualifications

  • 5+ years of non-internship professional software development experience
  • 5+ years of programming with at least one software programming language experience
  • 5+ 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

Preferred Qualifications

  • 5+ years of full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations experience
  • Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent

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

Our inclusive culture empowers Amazonians to deliver the best results for our customers. If you have a disability and need a workplace accommodation or adjustment during the application and hiring process, including support for the interview or onboarding process, please visit https://amazon.jobs/content/en/how-we-hire/accommodations for more information. If the country/region you’re applying in isn’t listed, please contact your Recruiting Partner.

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 https://amazon.jobs/en/benefits.

USA, WA, Bellevue - 168,100.00 - 227,400.00 USD annually

Source: Amazon Leo · View original posting (opens in new tab)

Pay in context

This role's base floor ($168,100) is above 66% of the 1,398 Software Engineering roles in Washington listed on this site; 162 others list the same floor. Their median floor is $143,700; the middle half runs from $143,700 to $168,100.

Only jobs on this site count, and each one publishes a base salary of $100,000 or more, so this compares six-figure jobs with each other, not with the whole market. Computed Nov 6, 2026.

This range next to 6 other live Amazon Leo roles with the nearest advertised base floor
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This range next to 6 other live Amazon Leo roles with the nearest advertised base floor
RolePublished base
Senior Software Development Engineer, Leo Manufacturing Software Systems (this listing)$168,100 - $227,400
Sr. Software Development Engineer, Leo Secure Communications Team$168,100 - $227,400
Sr. Software Dev Engineer, Amazon Leo Customer Terminal Software$168,100 - $227,400
Software Development Engineer, AI Foundations, Amazon Leo AI Foundations$168,100 - $227,400
Sr. Software Development Engineer, Leo Autopilot$168,100 - $227,400
Senior Software Engineer , Amazon Leo - Network Observability$168,100 - $227,400
Sr. Software Dev Engineer, Amazon Leo Customer Terminals$168,100 - $227,400

Same $100K to $400K scale as every card. All Amazon Leo roles · How to read the bar

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USA, WA, Bellevue - 168,100.00 - 227,400.00 USD annually

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