Senior SDE, Amazon Leo

Amazon • Redmond, WA

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About The Position

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.

Are you passionate about developing mission-critical software systems? As part
of the Atlas team, you'll build and maintain the backbone software
infrastructure that powers our entire organization. Your work will include:

- Creating systems and services for ingesting, processing, and visualizing vast
amounts of satellite telemetry data

- Building real-time monitoring systems to identify anomalies, detect emerging
trends, and proactively alert stakeholders to critical situations that require
intervention

- Ensuring extremely high reliability, uptime, and performance across systems
that receive and manage telemetry streams from thousands of endpoint

The systems we build serve a fundamental role in the successful functioning of
the satellite constellation, and several supporting teams. They depend on us to
have mission-critical reliability, uptime, and performance.

The Atlas software engineering group is responsible for developing and
maintaining the critical software infrastructure that enables multi-region
telemetry data ingestion, health monitoring, and trend analysis across Amazon
Leo's systems. As the core team building and managing these foundational data
pipelines and analytics systems, the Atlas team bears significant ownership and
responsibility to ensure high availability, performance, and scalability are met
to satisfy business needs.

Requirements

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

Nice To Haves

• 5+ 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

Responsibilities

• Develop software systems that meet the mission criteria and requirements.
• Collaborate with your fellow team members to form a strong foundation for a software organization in Leo.
• Help on-board new team members.
• Utilize AWS and other Amazon technologies to build high-available software services.

Benefits

• health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans, EAP, Mental Health Support, Medical Advice Line, Flexible Spending Accounts, Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage)
• 401(k) matching
• paid time off
• parental leave

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level