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Senior Software Development Engineer, Software Defined Network Control Plane, Amazon Leo

Amazon· Amazon Leo / Kuiper
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Redmond, WA$168.1k - $227.4kFull-timePosted 2w ago

About the role

Senior SDN Development Engineer focused on designing and building the SDN control plane for the Leo satellite network, coordinating across satellites, customer terminals, gateways, and terrestrial infrastructure; leads architectural direction, mentors engineers, and collaborates with hardware, embedded software, and mission teams.

Responsibilities

  • Design and deliver scalable, high-throughput, low-latency services for the SDN control plane, defining conventions and technical solutions that guide the team's engineering direction.
  • Build link planning, routing, and control plane delivery services in Rust for network nodes spanning satellite and terrestrial infrastructure.
  • Develop highly available control plane services along with the operational tooling, dashboards, and observability features needed to monitor and maintain system health.
  • Collaborate with hardware teams, scientists, embedded software engineers, mission planning, and mission operations to ensure the control plane integrates cleanly across the broader Leo network.
  • Drive software quality across the full lifecycle — from technical design and code review through testing, deployment, and on-call operational support — while mentoring other engineers on best practices.

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 architecture leadershipRust
Nice to have:Full software development lifecycle

Benefits

  • Base salary with sign-on payments and RSUs
  • Comprehensive benefits including health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription), Life & AD&D insurance options, EAP, Mental Health Support, FSAs, Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement, 401(k) matching, paid time off, parental leave
Last updated Oct 25, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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