System Development Engineer, Amazon Leo

Project LEO is an initiative to launch a constellation of Low Earth Orbit satellites that will provide low-latency, high-speed broadband network connectivity to unserved and underserved communities around the world.

Have you wanted an opportunity to develop software for an advanced satellite broadband telecom service? The observability and Flight SW release team owns creating the software that runs on the flight computer on the satellite and owns building the observability and troubleshooting experience for the satellites that are orbiting up in space.

The systems we build serve a fundamental role in the successful operation of the satellite constellation, these systems need to have mission-critical reliability, uptime, and performance.

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
• The Sys Dev Engineer is responsible to support suite of software applications and services to create software releases for the Flight Computer for the satellite. Your support will affect the mission and our customers directly! High impact production operations and issue triaging often require coordination between multiple Development, Product and Support teams, so you get to experience a breadth of impact with various groups. It’ll definitely help for you to be detail-oriented and a skilled problem solver, because you’ll also be helping us to streamline our processes—and automating them where applicable.

Primary responsibilities include building automation tooling to support software releases, troubleshooting, diagnosing and fixing production software issues, developing tools, automation and monitoring solutions, performing software maintenance and configuration, implementing the fix for internally developed code (Python and/or React), updating, tracking and resolving technical challenges and improving operational excellence and readiness of the systems.

Basic qualifications

• - 2+ years of systems development experience
• - Experience in automating, deploying, and supporting infrastructure
• - Experience programming with at least one modern language such as Python, Ruby, Golang, Java, C++, C#, Rust

Preferred qualifications

- 1+ years of systems development experience

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

USA, WA, Redmond - 99,100.00 - 160,000.00 USD annually