Software Development Manager

Project Leo is Amazons low Earth orbit satellite broadband network. Its mission is to deliver fast reliable internet to customers and communities around the world and weve designed the system with the capacity flexibility and performance to serve a wide range of customers from individual households to schools hospitals businesses government agencies and other organizations operating in locations without reliable connectivity.

In this role you will develop software for the Leo Customer Terminal embedded systems engineering team. You will be responsible for the design implementation deployment and operations of the functions for Leo Customer Terminals.

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.





Key job responsibilities
Key job responsibilities
* Development and testing with embedded Linux
* Develop embedded software functions for Customer Terminal devices within the Project Leo system
* Developing embedded software utilizing Rust C C
* Participate in all phases of SDLC: requirements design coding test deployment and production system
* Development of software in a secure compute environment
* State machine design and analysis
* Support Customer Terminal deployments operations and debugging on production systems
* Technical writing of design specifications

A day in the life

As part of our software engineering team you will lead a team of embedded software developers and design software for Leo Customer Terminal platforms in R&D and commercial operation. You will work in a collaborative environment with teams in Leo Customer Terminal hardware development software development and operations. You need to be flexible and responsive to fast changing priorities and issues. You will work on Customer Terminal issues on production system platforms.

About the team

The Leo Customer Terminal Software Team develops and supports the devices that connect Leo subscribers to the Leo network. We provide software for the Leo Customer Terminal platform applications and underlying Linux system. We work hand in hand with hardware engineering product and operations teams to deliver commercial grade services for our Leo subscribers.

- 3 years of engineering team management experience
- 7 years of engineering experience
- 8 years of leading the definition and development of multi tier web services experience
- 1 years of providing technical leadership and project management for all aspects of the software development lifecycle experience
- 1 years of developing large-scale multi-tiered distributed software systems using Java C# or C experience
- 1 years of developing large-scale multi-tiered distributed software systems using service-oriented architecture experience
- 1 years of developing large-scale multi-tiered distributed software systems using distributed programming experience
- 5 years of Software Engineer Software Developer or related occupational experience
- Bachelors degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science Engineering Mathematics or a related field
- Knowledge of engineering practices and patterns for the full software/hardware/networks development life cycle including coding standards code reviews source control management build processes testing certification and livesite operations
- Experience partnering with product or program management teams

- Experience in communicating with users other technical teams and senior leadership to collect requirements describe software product features technical designs and product strategy
- Experience in recruiting hiring mentoring/coaching and managing teams of Software Engineers to improve their skills and make them more effective product software engineers

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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 - 184900.00 - 250200.00 USD annually