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Senior Software Development Engineer, Amazon Low Earth Orbit, LEO Pop DataPlane

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1 day ago
Sunnyvale, CA, USASenior
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Base Salary

$193k - $262k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Architect and own scalable, performant, and secure Pop DataPlane traffic-processing systems across the full software lifecycle.
  • Lead multi-engineer projects delivering networking functions on AWS cloud infrastructure.
  • Collaborate with satellite network, ground-station, systems, product, and customer-facing teams to define requirements and interfaces.
  • Build and maintain automated tests, CI/CD pipelines, operational dashboards, and reliable data-plane services.
  • Participate in hands-on coding, code reviews, design reviews, on-call rotations, and operational support.
  • Coach and mentor engineers and drive engineering quality and continuous improvement.

Requirements

  • At least 5 years of non-internship professional software development experience.
  • At least 5 years of programming experience with at least one software programming language.
  • At least 5 years of experience leading the design or architecture of new and existing systems, including reliability and scaling.
  • Experience as a mentor, technical lead, or engineering team leader.
  • Preferred: at least 5 years covering the full software development lifecycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control, build processes, testing, and operations.
  • Preferred: bachelor’s degree in computer science or equivalent.
  • Must be a U.S. citizen or national, U.S. permanent resident, refugee, or asylee due to export-control requirements.

Benefits

  • Amazon offers health insurance, including medical, dental, vision, prescription, life and AD&D coverage, an EAP, mental health support, a medical advice line, flexible spending accounts, and adoption and surrogacy reimbursement.
  • Benefits include 401(k) matching, paid time off, and parental leave.
  • The package includes sign-on payments and restricted stock units.
  • Work location is Sunnyvale, California, USA.

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About Amazon

10,000+ employees

Amazon builds and operates a global e-commerce marketplace, logistics network, and consumer devices, and provides cloud computing via AWS for businesses and developers. The company earns revenue from online retail, third‑party seller services, subscriptions like Prime, advertising, and AWS usage. Founded in 1994 and headquartered in Seattle, it is publicly traded on NASDAQ (AMZN) and serves customers in dozens of countries.

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