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Software Development Engineer, Amazon Leo

Redmond, WASalary not listedPosted yesterday

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4 recent H-1B filings · 3 similar-role filings

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Job description

Amazon Leo is Amazon’s low Earth orbit satellite network. Our mission is to deliver fast, reliable internet connectivity to customers beyond the reach of existing networks. From individual households to schools, hospitals, businesses, and government agencies, Amazon Leo will serve people and organizations operating in locations without reliable connectivity.

Developer Experience organization owns the entire path from commit to satellite. This is a unique opportunity to offer this scope to platform engineers.
We will build a unified platform that empower Leo engineers to see their code affect satellite operations within days not weeks, months or a quarter. We will also provide a one-stop view enabling stakeholders to evaluate releases across all dimensions (acceptance, performance, security), reducing manual intervention, accelerating approval, and providing end-to-end traceability.

We are looking for a strong engineer, who are passionate about building solution in a green field, and are excited about building solutions that enhance automation, stability, and release processes across multiple systems. You will be responsible for developer experience across the entire Leo, CICD and production services. You will work closely with Sr. Engineers and principal engineers and Sr. Principal Engineers, application teams, identify and address common issues, drive solutions, and improve overall release quality, reliability and operational excellence. You will join a start-up team to build self-serve platform, automation, tools that enable Leo engineers to ship high quality software to space and ground, rapidly, securely and at scale. It's rare, high-impact work at the intersection of space and large-scale engineering.

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
Our team vision is to build self-service platform that empower developers to ship the high-quality software to space and ground at the speed of code, reliably, rapidly and at scale.
A successful engineer in this role is :
• Highly analytical: You solve problems in ways that can be backed up with verifiable data. You focus on driving processes, tools, and statistical methods which support rational decision-making.
• You’re ambitious, yet humble: You recognize that there’s always opportunity for improvement and use introspection and feedback from teammates and peers to raise the bar for your team.
• Engaged by ambiguity: You're able to explore new problem spaces with unique constraints and thus non-obvious solutions; you’re quick to identify any gaps in the team and the right person to fill them to best deliver value to customers.

A day in the life
You will work with Sr. Engineer, Principal Engineer and Sr. Principal Engineer side by side. You will have opportunity to collaborate with partner teams to understand the business use case. The room for invent and simplify and think big is large.

Basic qualifications

  • 3+ years of non-internship design or architecture (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
  • 3+ years of software development engineer or related occupational experience
  • 3+ 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

Preferred qualifications

  • 5+ years of full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations experience
  • Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent

Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status.

Our inclusive culture empowers Amazonians to deliver the best results for our customers. If you have a disability and need a workplace accommodation or adjustment during the application and hiring process, including support for the interview or onboarding process, please visit https://amazon.jobs/content/en/how-we-hire/accommodations for more information. If the country/region you’re applying in isn’t listed, please contact your Recruiting Partner.

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 https://amazon.jobs/en/benefits.

USA, WA, Redmond - 143,700.00 - 194,400.00 USD annually

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Employer H-1B history

4
recent certified H-1B filings
4
new-hire petitions
3
filings for similar roles
3
so far in FY2026

Filed titles like this role: software development engineer

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  • 3 certified H-1B filings for this same role
  • 4 recent certified H-1B filings across the employer
  • Still filing this year — 3 filings in FY2026
  • Some filing activity in WA
  • 1,220 other recent postings at this company state a sponsorship restriction
  • The posting says nothing about sponsorship either way

Some filing activity in WA.

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Employer PERM history

No recent PERM filings on record

This employer's identity is verified, and no certified PERM case was found for it in FY2023, FY2024, FY2025.

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