Software Development Engineer, Amazon Leo for Government

Amazon Leo is an initiative to launch a constellation of Low Earth Orbit satellites that will provide low-latency high-speed broadband connectivity to unserved and underserved communities around the world.

This role is responsible for designing building out and maintaining critical APIs and interfaces to link Leo capabilities to US Government customers such as NASA DoD and other National Security customers. You will develop forward-looking software services for mission critical space safety and sustainability applications which will automatically coordinate with external systems and organizations rapidly reliably and at scale.



Key job responsibilities
In this role you will:

- Utilize network topology understanding and Software Defined Networking / network operations experience to interface with the Leo network team to develop 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 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
- Contribute to internal and vendor teams to develop and deliver on software and interface requirements
- Ensure systems meet 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.

Security Clearance : This position requires that the candidate selected be a US Citizen and candidates must be able to obtain and maintain a US Government security clearance of TS/SCI.

About the team
The Leo for Government team is a multi-disciplinary technology team involved in developing and delivering targeted and scalable solutions for custom satellite and ground applications including United States and allied government customers.

- 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
- 1 years of software development engineer or related occupational experience
- 1 years of designing and developing large-scale multi-tiered multi-threaded embedded or distributed software applications tools systems and services using: C# C Java or Perl experience
- 1 years of Object Oriented Design experience
- Bachelors degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science Engineering Mathematics or a related field
- Experience programming with at least one software programming language

- 3 years of full software development life cycle including coding standards code reviews source control management build processes testing and operations experience
- Bachelors degree in computer science or equivalent
- 3 year of Software Defined Networking / network operations experience

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The base salary range for this position is listed below. Your Amazon package will include sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience qualifications and location. Amazon also offers comprehensive benefits including 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 and parental leave. Learn more about our benefits at WA Redmond - 143700.00 - 194400.00 USD annually