Software Development Engineer , Amazon Leo Network Services

Amazon Leo is Amazon’s 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

• You will develop code, build CI/CD pipelines, test automation, and dashboards for monitoring health of systems and data pipelines.
• You will work with multiple cross functional teams to gather requirements, design, develop, deploy, and operate the infrastructure you build
• You will develop and mentor junior and new team members.
• You will engineer and build a cloud service that is reliable and available to provide connectivity for our customers
• You will work on features that enhance the quality of service and security for our customers.
• You will collaborate and work on initiatives across multiple teams to build networking functions on AWS cloud infrastructure and set best practices for software development processes.

A day in the life

You'll design and operate software that manages the lifecycle of every customer terminal antenna in Kuiper's LEO constellation — from provisioning and configuration through firmware updates and fleet operations at global scale.

On any given day you might build APIs orchestrating over-the-air updates across thousands of terminals, solve distributed systems challenges like certificate revocation and location-aware routing, or drive operational excellence for services supporting real customer traffic 24/7. You'll collaborate closely with embedded software, network operations, security, and platform teams to keep every terminal secure, connected, and current.

About the team

The CT Overlay team builds the services that bring Kuiper's customer terminal antennas to life. We own device identity, configuration management, firmware delivery, fleet orchestration, and location services — the software layer that sits manages the fleet of physical hardware and their management on the network. Our systems operate at constellation scale, managing tens of thousands of terminals across multiple regions with strict security and availability requirements. We move fast, ship often, and own what we build end-to-end — from design through production operations. If you like solving real distributed systems problems with immediate customer impact, this is the team.

Basic Qualifications

• 3+ years of full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations 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 modern language such as C++, Rust, C, Java, or Python, including object-oriented design
• 1+ years of experience developing large-scale, multi-threaded, embedded, or distributed software applications, tools, systems, and services
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related field, or equivalent professional experience

Preferred Qualifications

• 3+ years of full software development life cycle experience, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations
• Experience building software for embedded devices or networked systems
• Experience operating software on constrained or intermittently connected devices at scale

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

USA, WA, Redmond - 143,700.00 - 194,400.00 USD annually