Software Development Engineer, Amazon Leo for Government

Software Development Engineer, Amazon Leo for Government

Amazon Leo is Amazon’s low Earth orbit satellite network, committed to delivering fast, reliable internet connectivity to customers beyond the reach of existing networks. This mission extends to individual households, schools, hospitals, businesses, and government agencies, ensuring connectivity for organizations in locations without reliable access.

In this role, you will be responsible for designing, building, and maintaining critical APIs and interfaces. These interfaces will link Amazon Leo capabilities to US Government customers such as NASA, DoD, and other National Security entities. You will develop forward-looking software services for mission-critical space safety and sustainability applications, ensuring automatic and rapid coordination with external systems and organizations reliably and at scale.

This position requires the candidate to be a US Citizen and to obtain and maintain a US Government security clearance of TS/SCI.

Key Job Responsibilities

• Utilize network topology understanding and Software Defined Networking/network operations experience to interface with the Amazon Leo network team, developing APIs and other enabling interface software to meet unique customer needs.
• Demonstrate the capabilities of the interfaces and architectures you define in a simulated test environment that you help develop.
• Solve complex technical problems related to the use of the Leo constellation for government customers as part of a multi-disciplinary team.
• Lead internal and vendor teams to develop and deliver on software and interface requirements.
• Ensure systems meet Amazon Leo and US Government performance needs, including availability, reliability, upgradeability, interoperability, and security requirements.
• Effectively communicate project health, risks, and issues to stakeholders and management teams.
• Escalate urgent issues appropriately and drive them to closure in a timely manner.
• Provide visualizations, document results, and communicate them across multi-disciplinary project teams.

About The Team

The Amazon Leo for Government team is a multi-disciplinary technology group focused on developing and delivering targeted and scalable solutions for custom satellite and ground applications, serving United States and allied government customers.

Basic Qualifications

• 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.
• Experience programming with at least one software programming language.

Preferred Qualifications

• 3+ 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.

Key skills/competency

• API Development
• Software Defined Networking (SDN)
• Network Operations
• System Architecture
• Satellite Communication
• US Government Security Clearance
• Interoperability
• Reliability Engineering
• Technical Leadership
• Problem Solving