Systems Development Engineer
Amazon· OISL Network Operations
Hybrid (Not specified onsite location)Full-timePosted 1mo ago
About the role
System Development Engineer for Amazon Leo OISL Network Operations, building and operating tooling, automation, and monitoring systems to support a large-scale laser communication network connecting thousands of satellites in space.
Responsibilities
- Network Operations Support & Execution: contribute to tooling development, automation initiatives, process improvements; participate in NetOps on-call program; assist with metrics reviews, readiness assessments, and capacity planning.
- Automation & Tooling: build scalable services for monitoring, fault detection, ticketing; develop data pipelines for KPI tracking and anomaly detection; build observability platforms; apply ML/AI for fault correlation and predictive failure detection.
- Cross-Functional Collaboration: partner with hardware, software, and ground network teams; investigate complex link failures; participate in architecture reviews and program planning as a Network Operations representative
- Hands-on development of tools, services, and automation (Python, Spark SQL, cloud services); design testing strategies for distributed satellite network systems; author technical specifications and operational documentation.
- A day in the life: review ticket queue and real-time satellite link health, correlate telemetry with constellation changes, work with hardware/embedded teams to root cause issues; build automated remediation workflows and ticketing pipelines; contribute to code reviews and on-call runbooks; identify observability gaps.
Qualifications
- - Experience in automating, deploying, and supporting large-scale infrastructure
- - Experience programming with at least one modern language such as Python, Ruby, Golang, Java, C++, C#, Rust
- - Experience with Linux/Unix
- - Experience with CI/CD pipelines build processes
- - 3+ years of experience in the aerospace industry or networking infrastructure.
Skills
Required:AutomationData pipelinesObservabilityPythonLinux/UnixCI/CD
Nice to have:ML/AI for fault analysisCommunication
Benefits
- - Comprehensive benefits including health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription) and life insurance;
- - 401(k) matching, paid time off, parental leave.
- - Sign-on payments and RSUs as part of compensation package.
Last updated Oct 25, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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