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Senior Software Dev Engineer, SDN, Amazon LEO

Amazon· Amazon Kuiper Manufacturing Enterprises LLC / SDN team
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USA, WA, Redmond$168.1k - $227.4kfull-timePosted 1mo ago

About the role

Senior Software Development Engineer responsible for designing, implementing, and operating the SDN control plane for Amazon’s LEO satellite network, delivering high-throughput, low-latency networking across space and terrestrial infrastructures.

Responsibilities

  • Take responsibility for designing and delivering a modern, flexible, scalable, high throughput, low latency network architecture
  • Implement workflows to orchestrate on orbit payload activities
  • Implement highly-available software that will drive networking control plane operation on physical and virtual nodes
  • Define and automate processes used for software development, implementation, testing, and maintenance
  • Provide operational excellence for control plane services, to including enabling tools and definition/refinement of operational processes
  • Diagnose routing and forwarding issues across the control plane, data plane, and physical topology
  • Integrate telemetry, topology, link-state, and network-condition data into route computation and control systems
  • Develop routing behavior for topology transitions, link changes, node movement, degraded links, and failures

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
  • 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

Skills

Required:Software design and architectureMentorship / technical leadershipFull software development lifecycle

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
  • Sign-on payments and RSUs (stock)
Last updated Oct 25, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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