1 day ago
Base Salary
$168k - $227k/yr
Responsibilities
- Own hardware and software contracts, supplier interfaces, command dictionaries, and telemetry and metadata contracts.
- Ensure every interface defines timing, resources, and a service level before hand-off.
- Partner directly with engineers across boundary teams through agreed contracts and service levels.
- Lead end-to-end design and delivery, representing the trade-offs of alternative approaches.
- Automate manual processes and improve team capability and release efficiency.
- Mentor engineers, promote best practices, mitigate long-term risks, clear blockers, and escalate when appropriate.
Requirements
- Five or more years of non-internship professional software development experience.
- Five or more years of programming experience with at least one software programming language.
- Five or more years leading the design or architecture of new and existing systems, including design patterns, reliability, and scaling.
- Experience as a mentor, technical lead, or engineering team leader, including influencing partner teams.
- Experience defining scope and requirements, building consensus, and balancing short- and long-term trade-offs in ambiguous environments.
- Experience defining interfaces for embedded software on RTOS and embedded Linux, including hardware and software boundaries, command and telemetry formats, and timing.
- Experience versioning and evolving interfaces used by multiple teams and delivering and maintaining production software across the full software development lifecycle.
- Preferred: experience with space command and telemetry or telecom interfaces.
- Preferred: experience with interface definition and contract testing tools.
- Preferred: experience setting technical direction across multiple teams, writing strategy narratives, conducting data-driven reviews, and deciding what to build, reuse, or deprecate.
Benefits
- Comprehensive health insurance including medical, dental, vision, prescription, life and AD&D insurance, an employee assistance program, mental health support, a medical advice line, and flexible spending accounts.
- 401(k) matching, paid time off, and parental leave.
- Adoption and surrogacy reimbursement coverage.
- Sign-on payments and restricted stock units are included in the overall package, separate from the stated base salary.
- Position is located in Redmond, Washington, USA.
- Candidates must be U.S. citizens or nationals, U.S. permanent residents, refugees, or individuals granted asylum due to export control requirements.
About Amazon
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.