Lead Support Engineer, Mobility, Amazon LEO Enterprise Customer Support

Socket.dev; Bellevue (WA); On-site; USD 121,000 - 164,000; Full time

Job summary

Amazon LEO is seeking a Senior Support Engineer to lead technical investigations, define monitoring thresholds, and manage field teams across multiple customers. You will drive root cause analysis, coordinate with hardware, software, and product teams, and shape the fleet’s reliability through data-driven decisions.

You will own the technical customer relationship, present at reviews, and guide escalation processes while aligning priorities with engineering and product roadmaps.

Qualifications

• Experience in satellite communications or in-service product support engineering.
• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Computer Science, or related field is a plus.
• Proven ability to perform root cause analysis and resolve recurring issues.

Responsibilities

• Define fault taxonomies, impact classifications, and alerting thresholds for connectivity systems.
• Build playbooks and escalation logic for new systems or scenarios.
• Establish monitoring requirements and telemetry data points with engineering teams.
• Review end-to-end deployments to anticipate design failures at scale.
• Serve as escalation authority and coordinate with cross-functional teams.
• Lead a team of Support Engineers across customers, including mentoring.
• Break down problems for parallel work and manage end-to-end investigations.
• Conduct MTBF analyses and reliability trending using field data.
• Author SOPs, work instructions, and decision trees for field use.
• Own the technical customer relationship and present on fleet status and issues.
• Drive product enhancements by validating telemetry and data gaps.

Skills

Satellite communications

Root cause analysis

MTBF analysis

Linux-based diagnostics

RF troubleshooting

Leadership

Telemetry & monitoring

Customer relationship

Education

Bachelor's degree in Engineering/CS

Tools

Linux

Networking

Job description

Amazon LEO is an initiative to increase global broadband access through a constellation of over 3,000 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.

Key job responsibilities

• Define BITE fault taxonomies, impact classifications, and alerting thresholds for connectivity systems
• Build the playbook where one doesn’t exist. When a new system, failure mode, or customer scenario has no documented path, define the support approach and escalation logic from scratch
• Establish monitoring requirements, telemetry data points, and fault thresholds. Work with Product and Hardware Engineering to determine tracking and visualization (LRU health, connectivity KPIs, firmware states, telemetry pipelines)
• Look beyond individual faults. Review how systems are deployed end-to-end (terminals, network, software, ground infrastructure) and identify where designs will break under scale or stress before they reach service.
• Serve as the escalation authority for recurring or fleet-wide issues. Drive root cause analysis and coordinate resolution with Hardware, Software, Network Operations, and Product
• Manage a team of Support Engineers across one or multiple customers, including workload assignment, mentoring, and performance development.
• Break down complex problems into assignable pieces so multiple engineers can work in parallel. You manage the investigation, findings and conclusion, end-to-end.
• Conduct MTBF analysis, reliability trending, failure mode identification, and hardware/software investigations using repair-shop data, service-bulletin history, and field failure reports
• Author and maintain troubleshooting SOPs, work instructions, and decision trees that Support Engineers execute daily in the field
• Own the technical customer relationship. Lead the technical components of MBRs and QBRs, and present on in-service status, fleet performance, and top issues
• Drive product enhancement requirements by identifying gaps in monitoring data and validating that telemetry reflects actual system health
• Provide structured feedback to Product Management on field observations, reliability trends, and improvement opportunities
• Identify recurring hardware and software incidents and coordinate with engineering teams to plan and release fixes or modifications
• Establish triage processes for incoming incidents: severity classification, reproduction steps, and handover packages produced within SLA
• Support Entry into Service (EIS), retrofit, and new customer onboarding from a technical readiness perspective
• Quantify Cost of Non-Conformance (CoNC) for in-service incidents to target engineering investment and backlog reduction
• Lead alignment across Engineering, Product, Operations, and the customer when priorities conflict. Bring teams to agreement on resolution approaches for contentious issues
• Serve as a trusted technical advisor to customers, guiding trade-off decisions across cost, performance, instrumentation depth, and operational risk
• Own the quality bar for solutions. Fixes should be maintainable, scalable, and simplify existing approaches rather than add complexity
• Contribute to hiring. Participate in interview panels, assess candidates against the technical bar, and help calibrate promotion readiness for the team

Work in a rotating shift schedule, including weekdays, and weekends, with the requirement to be available for on-call duties as needed to ensure continuous operational coverage.

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.

A day in the life

In this role, you will serve as the conduit between field Support Engineers, internal engineering teams (Hardware Engineering, Software Engineering, Network Operations, Product), and enterprise customers. You will define what to monitor and why: fault taxonomies, telemetry pipelines, alerting thresholds, and the data requirements behind proactive support. You will lead investigations into recurring issues, improve fleet reliability, manage a team of Support Engineers, and own the technical customer relationship. You will balance hands-on escalation work with longer-term priorities: shaping how the support model evolves, influencing the product roadmap based on what you see in the field, and deciding where the team invests time versus accepts risk.

Basic Qualifications

• Experience in technical troubleshooting or similar
• 8+ years of experience in satellite communications, in-flight connectivity, maritime connectivity, or equivalent enterprise connectivity systems in field support and/or in-service product support engineering roles.
• Industry-specific experience in connectivity systems product support in lieu of formal degree qualification (Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Computer Science, or related field is a plus)
• Experience leading hardware and software investigations: root cause analysis, failure mode identification, and resolution of recurring issues
• Experience with MTBF/MTBUR analysis, reliability trending, and using repair data to improve fleet performance
• Experience defining monitoring thresholds, data requirements, and fault taxonomies for in-service support tooling
• BITE (Built-In Test Equipment) fault interpretation across hardware and software systems
• Experience with Linux-based system diagnostics, log analysis, and network troubleshooting (TCP/IP, DNS, DHCP, VLANs, Wi-Fi)
• RF troubleshooting experience including VSWR, insertion loss testing, and satellite terminal diagnostics
• Experience producing executive-level technical presentations and leading customer business reviews
• Experience managing or leading a team of field or support engineers, including workload planning, mentoring, and performance management
• Ability to translate technical issues into actionable program decisions for non-technical stakeholders

Preferred Qualifications

• Prior product support engineering or engineering management experience at a connectivity, IFEC, or satellite communications OEM
• Comfortable going deep in one area while picking up enough in adjacent systems (network, software, hardware, RF) to connect the dots when problems cross domains
• History of documenting and sharing what you've learned, whether through tech talks, written best practices, or industry events
• Experience managing incident backlogs of 100+ concurrent cases with structured triage and escalation processes
• Experience using data analytics to define KPIs, build threshold-based alerting, and support predictive maintenance
• Prior on-site field engineering experience embedded at customer operational facilities
• Experience with software release coordination, service bulletin management, and configuration/change control
• Knowledge of Entry into Service (EIS) processes, certification requirements, and OEM integration workflows
• Experience quantifying Cost of Non-Conformance and driving engineering investment decisions based on field data

Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status.

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The base salary range for this position is listed below. Your Amazon package will include sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience, qualifications, and location. Amazon also offers comprehensive benefits including 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, and parental leave. Learn more about our benefits at https://amazon.jobs/en/benefits.

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