2 days ago
Redmond, WA, USAMid Level
H1B sponsor
Base Salary
$144k - $194k/yr
Responsibilities
- Develop new features and maintain embedded software running on satellites.
- Improve and maintain satellite availability toward 99.99%.
- Design mechanisms to detect software and hardware issues early and provide mitigation and fixes.
- Debug in-space and integrated-lab software and hardware issues.
- Collaborate with hardware engineers, principal engineers, and software development engineers to improve the software stack.
- Own the software lifecycle across design, testing, deployment, and mission integration.
- Design and build software for large-scale distributed computing environments.
- Identify and resolve software architectural deficiencies.
- Participate in code reviews, design reviews, test-plan reviews, troubleshooting, and team planning.
- Develop automation for features and bug fixes and promote software security, quality, and operational best practices.
Requirements
- At least 3 years of non-internship professional software development experience.
- At least 2 years of non-internship experience designing or architecting new and existing systems, including design patterns, reliability, and scaling.
- At least 1 year designing and developing large-scale, multi-tiered, multi-threaded, embedded, or distributed software applications using C#, C++, Java, or Perl.
- At least 1 year of object-oriented design experience.
- Bachelor's degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related field.
- Experience programming in at least one software programming language.
- Preferred: at least 3 years of full software development lifecycle experience, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations.
- Preferred: bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent.
- Candidates must be a U.S. citizen or national, U.S. permanent resident, or lawfully admitted refugee or person granted asylum due to export-control requirements.
Benefits
- Comprehensive medical, dental, vision, prescription, basic life and AD&D insurance, with supplemental life-plan options.
- Employee assistance program, mental health support, medical advice line, flexible spending accounts, and adoption and surrogacy reimbursement coverage.
- 401(k) matching, paid time off, and parental leave.
- Compensation includes sign-on payments and restricted stock units in addition to base salary.
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.