Senior Software Development Engineer, Amazon Leo - Developer Productivity, AI, Test and Simulation

About the role

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.

The Developer Productivity, AI, Test and Simulations team is responsible for developer experience, builder operations, CI/CD and Infrastructure services. We are looking for engineers with experience in designing backend services, five 9 service availability and metrics, with advanced knowledge of AWS cloud services infrastructure such as IAM, Lambdas, CloudWatch, API Gateways etc. Deep knowledge on leveraging Generative AI for productivity tooling is required. Proficiency in at least one of TypeScript, Python or Go is an added advantage.

The candidate would participate in all phases of software development from requirements through implementation and test to operations. You will participate in the design, integration and improvement of the software. This includes designing and implementing a wide range of software using the AWS stack, sometimes requiring partnership with low-level embedded code software systems and architecting scalable design solutions for software distribution and deployment for satellites. You must be able to disambiguate high levels of ambiguity and unknowns, design flexible solutions and succeed within an open, collaborative environment.

Responsibilities

• Understanding of AWS stack: IAM, Lambdas, CloudWatch, API Gateways
• Fine-grained access control
• Understanding of automation, monitoring and operational excellence
• AWS Permissions and IAM roles, Authorization and authentication
• Bedrock, Agent Core, Prompt engineering
• Knowledge of S3 storage patterns
• Build large-scale infrastructure services
• Maintain a strong security mindset

Leo operates like a startup; we move fast, drive impact and prioritize work on goals with the highest business impact. Our vision is to automate from code review to release with guardrails in place and AI-driven quality gates to launch products.

About The Team

This team is similar to Builder Tools at Amazon. We own a lot of services and work with our internal customers to solve hard problems, automating the build-to-release lifecycle using AI.

Requirements

• 8+ years of non-internship professional software development experience
• 8+ years of programming with at least one software programming language
• 5+ years of leading design or architecture (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems
• Experience as a mentor, tech lead or leading an engineering team

Preferred Qualifications

• 8+ years of full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations experience
• 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 U.S. as a refugee or granted asylum.

Pay

• USA, CA, Sunnyvale – $193,300.00 – $261,500.00 USD annually
• USA, WA, Redmond – $168,100.00 – $227,400.00 USD annually