Senior Software Engineer, Customer Terminals Software, Amazon Leo Customer Terminal

Amazon; Redmond (WA); On-site; USD 168,000 - 227,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance and RSUs

Paid time off

Parental leave

Job summary

Amazon Leo is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to lead the Customer Terminals Software stack, spanning BSP, kernel, networking, device management, and applications for satellite ground terminals. You will shape architecture, mentor teams, and collaborate with hardware, RF, and product groups to ensure scalable, secure systems operating across demanding environments.

This role offers high autonomy to define interfaces and drive engineering culture, delivering robust OTA updates and fleet

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

• Own long-term software architecture for customer terminals, spanning board bring-up, BSP, kernel, networking stack, device management, and application layers.
• Partner with hardware, silicon, RF, antenna, networking, and product teams to drive hardware/software co-design decisions across SoC selection, RF integration, power management, thermal constraints, and satellite link optimization.
• Serve as the technical lead on the most demanding, cross-functional problems and multiply team effectiveness.
• Define best practices for the software development lifecycle including design, implementation, testing, and operations.
• Lead architecture and delivery of mission-critical embedded software for high-volume consumer devices.

Skills

Software development

Architecture design

Mentorship

Engineering leadership

Education

Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent

Tools

Linux kernel

Device drivers

BSP

SoC integration

Job description

Amazon Leo is an initiative to launch a constellation of Low Earth Orbit satellites that will provide low-latency, high-speed broadband network connectivity to unserved and underserved communities around the world — from individual households to schools, hospitals, businesses, and government agencies.

The Customer Terminals Software team owns the full software stack that powers the customer based ground terminals. This is a unique engineering challenge at the intersection of embedded systems, wireless communications, and high-volume consumer hardware. Our team is responsible for low-level device drivers, board support packages, Linux kernel, secure manufacturing, MAC and PHY interactions, data plane, control plane, networking, device management, and user-facing applications.

We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer to serve as the technical leader for Customer Terminals Software — someone who can define the architecture, raise the engineering bar, and drive technical excellence across the full embedded software stack. This role offers high autonomy to shape both the technology and the engineering culture of a team building a new category of infrastructure at planetary scale.

Key job responsibilities

• Technical Vision & Architecture: Own the long-term software architecture for customer terminals, spanning board bring-up, BSP, kernel, networking stack, device management, and application layers. Define architectural patterns that ensure scalability, reliability, security, and maintainability across product generations.
• Cross-Functional System Design: Partner with hardware, silicon, RF, antenna, networking, and product teams to drive hardware/software co-design decisions across SoC selection, RF integration, power management, thermal constraints, and satellite link optimization.
• Technical Leadership & Force Multiplication: Serve as the technical lead on the most demanding, cross-functional problems. Exert influence across multiple teams, increasing their productivity and effectiveness by sharing deep knowledge and experience. Functionally decompose complex problems into simple, straightforward solutions.
• Engineering Excellence: Define best practices for the software development lifecycle — design, implementation, testing, and operations. Drive quality metrics, code review standards, and operational excellence mechanisms across the organization.
• Embedded Systems Delivery: Lead architecture and delivery of mission-critical embedded software for high-volume consumer devices operating in diverse and challenging environments worldwide. Ensure robustness in connectivity, performance, OTA updates, fleet observability, and lifecycle management.

A day in the life

You will own significant portions of the customer terminal software architecture, partnering with Senior stakeholders across Amazon Leo's hardware, ASIC, RF, electrical, thermal, power, and software teams. You'll define interfaces between subsystems, resolve cross-cutting architectural challenges, and work hands-on with engineers as a force multiplier. You'll operate in productive ambiguity — where problems are not always clear and solutions need to be invented — while delivering systems where software meets physics, with signals traversing thousands of kilometers to satellites moving at orbital velocity.

Basic 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

Preferred Qualifications

• 5+ years of full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations experience
• Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent

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

Los Angeles County applicants: Job duties for this position include: work safely and cooperatively with other employees, supervisors, and staff; adhere to standards of excellence despite stressful conditions; communicate effectively and respectfully with employees, supervisors, and staff to ensure exceptional customer service; and follow all federal, state, and local laws and Company policies. Criminal history may have a direct, adverse, and negative relationship with some of the material job duties of this position. These include the duties and responsibilities listed above, as well as the abilities to adhere to company policies, exercise sound judgment, effectively manage stress and work safely and respectfully with others, exhibit trustworthiness and professionalism, and safeguard business operations and the Company’s reputation. Pursuant to the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

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.

• 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
• parental leave

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