System Development Engineer, Amazon Leo

Amazon Leo is an initiative to increase global broadband access through a constellation of 3236 satellites in low Earth orbit (LEO). Its mission is to bring fast affordable broadband to unserved and underserved communities around the world. Amazon Leo will help close the digital divide by delivering fast affordable broadband to a wide range of customers including consumers businesses government agencies and other organizations operating in places without reliable connectivity.

Export Control: This position requires that the candidate selected be a U.S. Citizen in order to comply with U.S. government-imposed requirements related to the nature of the work and/or where it will be performed.

The Role: In this role you will be a member of the team building and operating AWS infrastructure that supports the organizations business services. You will contribute to the infrastructure support for integrations and multiple SAP S/4HANA systems maintain infrastructure as code (IaC) to provision configure and maintain secure scalable and reliable cloud environments. Our ideal candidate has solid knowledge of integration patterns authentication and certificate management and a desire and ability to work in a fast-paced collaborative environment.


Key job responsibilities
Contribute to developing and delivering scalable microservices and APIs integrating AWS services with SAP systems (S/4HANA Ariba SuccessFactors) using protocols such as RFC BAPI IDoc OData and REST.

Help maintain infrastructure as code (IaC) to provision and manageJL1.1 the AWS infrastructure (EventBridge SQS SNS Step Functions) required to support event-driven architectures and SAP integration pipelines (BTP Integration Suite) per solution specifications.

Troubleshoot and resolve integration failures across distributed systems helping ensure high availability and data consistency.

Implement and manage authentication/authorization mechanisms (SAML 2.0 OAuth 2.0 OIDC) and identity provider configuration enabling secure SSO in hybrid environments.

Assist with Certificate lifecycle management (provisioning renewal rotation revocation) using ACM and AWS Private CA including monitoring alerting and compliance with security standards (e.g. mTLS).

Participate in on-call rotations contribute to root cause analysis and help maintain operational dashboards alarms and runbooks to improve reliability and cost efficiency.

Collaborate with SAP Basis security and product teams to align on requirements and delivery.

Work closely with the offshore support team to coordinate issue triage and resolution provide clear handoffs share technical context and improve support processes across time zones.

Support the integration of AI/ML capabilities into SAP workflows using Bedrock SageMaker Textract and Comprehend for intelligent automation (document processing conversational interfaces forecasting).

Collaborate with data engineers to help build pipelines feeding SAP transactional dataJL2.1 into ML models for anomaly detection and process optimization.


A day in the life
This is an excellent opportunity to join Amazon Leos world class technical team working with some of the best and brightest engineers while also developing your skills and furthering your career within one of the most innovative programs.

About the team
You will be joining a team of engineers responsible for building and operating the cloud infrastructure and integrations that power Amazon Leos enterprise applications including SAP S/4HANA and AI-driven workflows on AWS. Our work directly supports the mission of delivering global broadband access through a constellation of 3236 satellites. We value curiosity ownership and collaboration; our engineers regularly contribute to architecture decisions mentor peers and explore emerging AWS services like Bedrock and SageMaker. Youll have the opportunity to work across distributed systems security and machine learning in a supportive growth-oriented environment.

- Experience in automating deploying and supporting large-scale infrastructure
- Experience programming with at least one modern language such as Python Ruby Golang Java C C# Rust
- Experience with Linux/Unix
- Experience with CI/CD pipelines build processes
- 3 years of designing or architecting (design patterns reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
- Familiarity with AWS core services (EC2 Lambda S3 IAM CloudFormation or CDK).
- Exposure to authentication protocolsJL4.1 (SAML 2.0 OAuth 2.0 OIDC) and certificate management.

- Experience with distributed systems at scale
- 5 years of experience in systems development or cloud infrastructure engineering.
- Experience with AWS infrastructure services (VPC EC2 Lambda CDK/Terraform CloudFormation).
- Familiarity with authentication and identity management (IAM SSO SAML 2.0 OAuth 2.0 OpenID Connect).
- Exposure to certificate management using AWS Certificate Manager Private CA and TLS/mTLS automation.
- Experience with SAP on AWS (S/4HANA BTP Ariba) and SAP integration patterns (RFC IDoc OData).
- Familiarity with AWS AI/ML servicesJL5.1 (Bedrock SageMaker Textract) applied to enterprise workflows.
- Exposure to AI/ML agent frameworks or conversational AI platforms.
- Familiarity with load balancing technologies (ALB/NLB a plus)

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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 Bellevue - 129200.00 - 174800.00 USD annually