Software Development Engineer , Ground Control Console (GC2)

Amazon Leo is Amazons low Earth orbit satellite network built to deliver fast reliable broadband to customers and communities around the world including places traditional networks dont reach.

As a Software Development Engineer II on the Leo Ground Control Console team youll build the services infrastructure and platform that power the web tools Leos engineers and operators use every day to run the constellation. That includes mission operations network health satellite and ground systems and leadership views of network performance. Youll own systems end to end from design and infrastructure as code through production operations.

What youll do
- Design and build backend services and APIs that connect operator tools to data and systems across Leos ground and space segments with a focus on security reliability and low latency.
- Own the cloud infrastructure behind a shared platform used by many teams: infrastructure as code deployment pipelines account and access guardrails and the shared constructs other teams build on.
- Make the platform fast and dependable at fleet scale. Find where latency and errors come from across services fix them and prove the improvement with data.
- Build in observability: metrics alarms logging and real-user monitoring so problems surface before users report them.
- Work with engineering teams across ground and space systems to turn complex mission workflows into robust well-designed systems.
- Raise the bar on engineering practice: design reviews automated code review and quality checks safe deployments and AI-assisted development workflows that help a small team move quickly without lowering the bar.
- Support high-stakes moments such as launches on-orbit operations and operational rehearsals where the systems have to just work.

About you
You care about craft reliability and the people who depend on what you build. Youre comfortable owning ambiguous problems end to end balancing several priorities and staying calm under pressure. You have strong software engineering fundamentals experience building and operating distributed systems or cloud services and you like making complex systems simpler and faster. Experience with infrastructure as code security performance tuning or frontend platforms is a plus. Familiarity with space or network systems is welcome but not required; youll learn the domain here.

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.

About the team
The Leo Ground Control Console team owns the operational tooling used across Amazon Leo on the ground and in orbit. We build a shared platform that is scalable reliable adaptable and fast so every team at Leo can deliver tools their users rely on. Were a small high-ownership team that ships quickly measures its impact and invests in the tools and practices that make the whole organization more productive.

Key job responsibilities
Key job responsibilities
- Design build test and operate backend services APIs and infrastructure for Amazon Leos operator and leadership tools from design through production support.
- Own the platforms cloud infrastructure and deployment pipelines as code including the shared building blocks and guardrails other teams depend on.
- Measure and improve the latency reliability and cost of services and their dependencies and make them resilient to slow or failing systems.
- Add metrics alarms and logging to what you ship and use the data to prioritize improvements and show their impact.
- Partner with engineers operators and product owners across ground and space systems to understand requirements and turn them into well-designed solutions.
- Write high-quality well-tested code review others changes and help define the teams design standards security practices and automated quality checks.
- Improve developer productivity through better tooling CI/CD test automation and AI-assisted development workflows.
- Participate in on-call and support launches on-orbit operations and operational rehearsals.

About the team
The Ground Control Console team owns the operational tooling platform used across Project Leo to support all aspects of the mission both on the ground and in orbit. We prioritize building a platform that is scalable reliable adaptable and performant in order to provide our customers with tools and support that they have come to rely on for the missions ongoing success.

- 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

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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