Senior SDE - LEO DataPlane & Control Plane Architect

Amazon.com Inc.; Sunnyvale (CA); On-site; USD 165,000 - 224,000; Full time

Job summary

Amazon is seeking a Senior Software Development Engineer for Project Leo's LEO Pop Control Plane in Sunnyvale. You will architect data-plane/control-plane networking systems, lead multi-engineer projects on AWS, and collaborate with satellite networks, ground stations, and customers to deliver scalable connectivity.

You will build CI/CD pipelines, automated tests, and dashboards while mentoring engineers and driving high-quality code across the full software lifecycle.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of non-internship professional software development experience.
• 2+ years of non-internship design or architecture experience on new/existing systems.
• 1+ years of software development engineer or related occupational experience.
• 1+ years of designing and developing large-scale, multi-tiered, multi-threaded, distributed software applications and services using C#, C++, Java, or Perl.
• 1+ years of Object Oriented Design experience.
• Bachelor's degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or related field.
• Experience programming with at least one software programming language.

Responsibilities

• Own the architectural direction of the networking data-plane and control-plane systems, defining scalability, performance, and security tradeoffs.
• Lead multi-engineer projects to build networking functions on cloud infrastructure, establishing development, testing, and deployment best practices.
• Collaborate with satellite network, ground station, and customer-facing teams to gather requirements and define interfaces.
• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines, automated tests, and operational dashboards that keep services reliable.
• Coach and mentor engineers through design reviews and code reviews.

Skills

Software development experience

System design/architecture

OO design

Programming languages (C#, C++, Java,/

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or related field

Job description

Amazon is seeking a Senior Software Development Engineer for Project Leo's LEO Pop Control Plane in Sunnyvale. You will architect data-plane/control-plane networking systems, lead multi-engineer projects on AWS, and collaborate with satellite networks, ground stations, and customers to deliver scalable connectivity.

You will build CI/CD pipelines, automated tests, and dashboards while mentoring engineers and driving high-quality code across the full software lifecycle.