Sr. Software Dev Engineer in Test, Leo Anchor
About The Position
We are looking for Sr. SDET engineers with experience in supporting mission-critical applications, who are excited about building solutions that enhance automation, stability, and release processes across multiple systems. You will work closely with engineering teams to identify and address common issues, drive solutions, and improve overall release quality and reliability. This role requires hands-on engagement, troubleshooting, and automation development. You will work within the ANCHOR team, managing release processes and automation to maintain a seamless and efficient pipeline. The team operates an on-call support rotation, and you will be responsible for maintaining release quality and pipeline health. Your work will directly impact Leo's ability to deliver high-quality, reliable releases efficiently. 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. A day in the life A Sr. SDET works closely with development, QA, and DevOps teams to ensure the reliability and quality of daily builds, automated tests, and release pipelines. They spend much of their time monitoring CI/CD pipelines, troubleshooting build and test failures, supporting software releases, and improving test automation and operational tooling. This role is hands-on and execution-focused, with opportunities to grow toward technical ownership and leadership. About the team The ANCHOR team (Automated Navigation and Control of Releases) is focused on streamlining and standardizing the release process. This team manages releases for all Payload LRUs, including Ground LRUs, ensuring consistent release quality, pipeline health, and process efficiency. The team’s charter includes creating release automation, documenting changes, tracking versioned releases, and supporting the transition to a common versionset structure as a long-term strategy. ANCHOR operates autonomously, focused on improving time-to-release, automation reliability, and release transparency.
Requirements
- 4+ years of non-internship professional software development testing experience
- 3+ years of software QA testing work with writing the test plans, use cases, and issue reports experience
- Experience managing programs across cross-functional teams, building processes and coordinating release schedules
- Experience programming with at least one modern language such as Java, C++, or C# including object-oriented design
Nice To Haves
- 3+ years of software development and delivery experience
- Experience in penetration testing and exploitability-focused vulnerability assessment
Responsibilities
- CI/CD Pipeline Ownership & Stability
- Release Engineering & Software Delivery
- Test Automation at Scale
- Operational Support & Incident Response
- Reliability & Continuous Improvement
- Technical Leadership & Collaboration (Senior-Level Expectation)
Benefits
- Amazon is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered, equity, sign-on payments, and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package, in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits.
- For more information, please visit https://www.aboutamazon.com/workplace/employee-benefits
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
Education Level
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