Sr SDE - MES, Amazon Leo, Manufacturing Execution Systems
Amazon· Software Development
Bellevue, WA$168.1k - $227.4kFull-timePosted 2mo ago
About the role
Senior Software Development Engineer leading design, architecture, and delivery of MES capabilities powering satellite, ground equipment, and ASIC manufacturing for Amazon Leo. Defines technical vision, mentors engineers, and drives scalable, reliable MES solutions across manufacturing orchestration, factory automation, and production data systems.
Responsibilities
- Lead the design and architecture of MES software systems that drive the assembly, calibration, testing, and provisioning of satellites across production lines.
- Own the technical vision and long-term architectural roadmap for MES capabilities, ensuring scalability, reliability, and security as production volumes ramp.
- Define and enforce engineering best practices, coding standards, design patterns, and operational excellence across the MES engineering team.
- Architect end-to-end system capabilities for manufacturing orchestration, including integration with shop floor control systems (e.g., Ignition), ERP, PLM, and industrial automation platforms.
- Lead system design reviews, drive technical trade-off discussions, and make high-judgment decisions balancing speed, quality, cost, and long-term maintainability.
- Collaborate with teams from manufacturing engineering, product engineering, and security engineering to identify requirements and design scalable MES solutions.
- Mentor and develop junior and mid-level engineers; raise the technical bar through code reviews, architecture reviews, and hands-on technical guidance.
- Drive technical deep dives to resolve complex production issues, system performance bottlenecks, and cross-service dependencies.
- Design and implement telemetry, observability, and monitoring frameworks to ensure system health and enable data-driven decision making.
- Own the operational readiness of MES systems, including deployment pipelines, disaster recovery, and incident response processes.
- Design secure manufacturing software systems that maintain rigorous compliance standards across internal facilities and global contract manufacturing sites.
- Lead the technical execution of system upgrades, migrations, and new capability deployments across production environments.
- Deliver solutions that enable repeatable, highly available, and controlled manufacturing processes by standardizing, automating, and simplifying manufacturing test development and execution.
Qualifications
- 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
Skills
Required:Software design and architectureMentorship and technical leadership
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
- parential leave
- sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs) included in compensation details
Last updated Oct 25, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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