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Amazon · 17 hours ago

Sr. Software Engineer, Leo, Nexus

Redmond, WA

Full-time

Onsite

Senior Level

$168K/yr - $227K/yr

5+ years exp

Amazon is the company behind the Leo satellite network, aiming to provide reliable internet connectivity to underserved areas. The role involves architecting and developing a platform for resource management that supports engineering teams in utilizing lab resources efficiently, thereby accelerating development velocity.

Artificial Intelligence (AI)DeliveryE-CommerceFoundational AIRetail

No H1B

U.S. Citizen Only

Responsibilities

You'll architect and develop the platform that enables hundreds of engineers to discover, reserve, and utilize lab resources without conflicts or downtime

This means solving complex problems in resource orchestration, state management, and distributed systems—ensuring hardware is always available, properly configured, and ready when teams need it

Your work directly accelerates Leo's development velocity

By removing infrastructure bottlenecks and automating repetitive tasks, you enable both lab engineers to focus on high-value hardware work and development teams to ship faster without fighting over resources and ensuring their test environments mimic the actual satellites

Qualification

Software development experienceProgramming languagesSystem designArchitectureSoftware development life cycleBachelor's degree in CSMentoringLeadership

Required

5+ years of non-internship professional software development experience

5+ years of programming with at least one software programming language experience

5+ years of leading design or architecture (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience

Experience as a mentor, tech lead or leading an engineering team

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

Preferred

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

Benefits

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

Parental leave