Sr. Software Development Engineer , Leo Asset Tracker

Amazon Inc.; Redmond; On-site; AUD 239,000 - 323,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

401(k) matching

Paid time off

Parental leave

RSUs

Job summary

Amazon LEO is seeking a senior backend engineer to own and extend Python AWS Lambda APIs, DynamoDB data modeling, and OpenSearch indexing for Leo Asset Tracker. You will work on RBAC, per-program authorization, and secure cloud infrastructure.

Collaborate with frontend and infra teams to deliver features while writing tests and participating in security reviews. A strong background in Python, AWS serverless, and API design is required.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of non-internship professional software development experience.
• Experience designing REST APIs and data models.
• Experience with AWS serverless services (Lambda, DynamoDB, API Gateway, IAM).
• Experience leading design or architecture of systems and mentoring teams.
• Experience building production backend services in Python.
• Experience writing automated tests (unit/integration).
• Familiarity with security and access control (RBAC, multi-tenant).
• Experience with CI/CD and AWS deployment pipelines.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and operate Python (AWS Lambda) API domains and event-driven workers.
• Own the DynamoDB data model and OpenSearch indexing paths for scalable queries.
• Extend RBAC security model and manage IAM roles, policies, and permissions.
• Wire backend changes end-to-end through the TypeScript CDK package and pipelines.
• Lead security reviews and ensure compliance across infra and app layers.
• Write unit and integration tests, perform code reviews, maintain code quality.
• Support deployment pipelines from alpha to prod, monitor, and on-call operations.
• Collaborate with frontend (React) and infra teams to deliver features like location tracking and geofencing.

Skills

Python

AWS

REST APIs

TypeScript CDK

Security (RBAC)

Testing (unit/integration)

Education

Master's degree in computer science

Tools

aws-lambda-powertools

pydantic

boto3

OpenSearch/Elasticsearch

NoSQL data modeling

TypeScript CDK

Job description

Description

Amazon LEO is an initiative to increase global broadband access through a constellation of 3,236 satellites in low Earth orbit (LEO). Its mission is to bring fast, affordable broadband to unserved and underserved communities around the world. Amazon LEO will help close the digital divide by delivering fast, affordable broadband to a wide range of customers, including consumers, businesses, government agencies, and other organizations operating in places without reliable connectivity.

Leo Asset Tracker (LAT) is an internal Amazon application that gives Leo teams real-time visibility into their physical assets — antennas, test equipment, and Hubble trackers — across facilities. It replaces spreadsheets and manual audits with a program-scoped system of record covering device management, live location and geofencing, calibration tracking, device transfers, and built-in audit trails.

The backend is a serverless AWS platform: Python Lambda functions built on aws-lambda-powertools and pydantic, DynamoDB and OpenSearch for storage and search, and a TypeScript AWS CDK package that defines the infrastructure and CI/CD pipeline. The service is secured by a V3 role-based access-control model with per-program scoping. As a backend engineer you will own and extend the APIs, data model, and infrastructure that power the product.

Export Control Requirement

Due to applicable export control laws and regulations, candidates must be a U.S. citizen or national, U.S. permanent resident (i.e., current Green Card holder), or lawfully admitted into the U.S. as a refugee or granted asylum.

Key job responsibilities

• Design, build, and operate Python (AWS Lambda) API domains and event-driven workers, following the domain layer pattern (routes, models, store, permissions) used across the service.

• Own the DynamoDB data model and OpenSearch indexing paths — designing keys, GSIs, and cursor-paginated queries that scale.

• Extend the V3 RBAC security model (roles, permissions, and per-program authorization), guard every endpoint through centralized permission predicates, and manage IAM roles, policies, Bindle-based access controls, and permission boundaries to ensure least-privilege compliance across all services and environments.

• Wire backend changes end-to-end through the TypeScript CDK package: Lambda definitions, IAM grants, environment variables, API Gateway routes, and pipeline stages — owning the security posture of all provisioned AWS resources.

• Lead and participate in security reviews, ensuring alignment with organizational security standards and best practices across infrastructure and application layers.

• Write unit and integration tests, uphold code quality (black, isort, flake8, mypy), and participate in code reviews (CRUX).

• Support the alpha → beta → gamma → prod deployment pipeline, monitoring, and on-call operational excellence for the service.

• Collaborate with frontend (React/Cloudscape) and infrastructure partners to deliver features such as location tracking, geofencing, and device transfers.

Basic Qualifications

• 7+ years of non-internship professional software development experience

• 7+ 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

• Experience in Python and building and operating production backend services.

• Experience with AWS serverless services (Lambda, DynamoDB, API Gateway, IAM).

• Experience designing REST APIs, data models, and writing automated tests.

• Experience writing clean, well-documented, maintainable code and to reason about security and access control.

Preferred Qualifications

• 7+ years of full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations experience

• Master's degree in computer science or equivalent

• 1+ years of continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) experience, or AWS Professional level certification

• Experience with aws-lambda-powertools, pydantic, and boto3.

• Experience with OpenSearch/Elasticsearch and NoSQL data modeling (single-table, GSIs, pagination).

• Familiarity with role-based access control and multi-tenant / program-scoped authorization.

• Experience with Amazon internal build and deployment systems (Brazil, Apollo, Pipelines, CRUX).

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USA, WA, Redmond - 168,100.00 - 227,400.00 USD annually