Senior Autonomy Engineer for Satellite Constellation

Amazon Inc.; Redmond; On-site; AUD 239,000 - 324,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

RSUs

Sign-on bonus

Paid time off

Job summary

Amazon Inc. is recruiting for a Senior Software Engineer to build autonomous spacecraft software for a growing satellite constellation.

You will design services, write code, and harden systems that operate real spacecraft, coordinating with operators and mission teams to handle tricky situations with automation. The role emphasizes ownership, architecture influence, and delivering reliable broadband to customers.

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.

Responsibilities

• Work with peer teams and customers to design suitable software systems to fulfill the mission needs.
• Develop cloud native software systems in Java and Python.
• Utilize AWS and other Amazon technologies to build highly-available software services.
• Design and develop performant software systems that meet the mission criteria and requirements.
• Help on-board and mentor new team members.
• Lead technical roadmap definition efforts and decide which features and performance improvements to build.

Skills

Software development experience

Programming experience

Design/architecture leadership

Mentorship/leadership

Education

Bachelor's degree in computer science

Tools

Java

Python

AWS

Job description

Amazon Inc. is recruiting for a Senior Software Engineer to build autonomous spacecraft software for a growing satellite constellation.

You will design services, write code, and harden systems that operate real spacecraft, coordinating with operators and mission teams to handle tricky situations with automation. The role emphasizes ownership, architecture influence, and delivering reliable broadband to customers.