Software Development Engineer

About the Role

Amazon Project Leo is building a constellation of low-Earth orbit satellites to deliver low-latency, high-speed broadband connectivity to communities around the world. As a Senior Software Development Engineer on the networking team, you will architect and build the data-plane and control-plane traffic processing systems that connect the satellite network to customers. You will design these systems from the ground up as Project Leo prepares to launch worldwide service, working across the full software lifecycle from requirements through deployment and operations. This is a hands-on technical leadership role where your design decisions will directly affect how millions of people experience the internet.

Key Responsibilities

• Own the architectural direction of the networking data-plane and control-plane systems, defining scalability, performance, and security tradeoffs while keeping designs simple and extensible.
• Lead multi-engineer projects to build networking functions on cloud infrastructure, establishing development, testing, and deployment best practices that the broader team adopts.
• Collaborate with satellite network, ground station, and customer-facing teams to gather requirements, define interfaces, and ensure your systems integrate into the end-to-end network architecture.
• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines, automated tests, and operational dashboards that keep services reliable and enable rapid, incremental delivery of new capabilities.
• Coach and mentor engineers through design reviews and code reviews, raising the team's overall code quality and helping colleagues grow into larger technical responsibilities.

Requirements & Tech Stack

• 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.
• 1+ years of software development engineer or related occupational experience.
• 1+ 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.
• 1+ years of Object Oriented Design experience.
• Experience programming with at least one software programming language.
• Familiarity with AWS cloud infrastructure.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related field.
• Preferred: 3+ years of full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations experience.
• Preferred: Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent.

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 region as a refugee or granted asylum.