Senior Software Engineer - In-Flight Connectivity Platform

GCS Recruitment; Fremont (CA); On-site; USD 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Amazon Leo is building a high-performance in-flight connectivity platform. We seek a Senior Software Engineer to lead design and integration across avionics, cloud, and embedded domains, delivering secure, scalable software for a growing airliner fleet.

You will work on the cabin network, OTA lifecycle, telemetry pipelines, and cross-platform integration, using Linux, C/C++, Python, Docker, and Kubernetes in an agile, security-focused environment.

Qualifications

• 6+ years of professional software development experience, with several years leading design or architecture of production systems.
• Strong Linux-based software development on real devices using C/C++ and/or Python.
• Solid networking fundamentals: VLANs, routing, QoS/traffic prioritization, and network troubleshooting.
• Experience with device-to-cloud systems: telemetry, health monitoring, or fleet/device management.
• Experience building or operating software update pipelines (OTA/firmware: signing, staged rollout, rollback).
• Containers (Docker; Kubernetes a plus) and modern CI/testing practices.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement core platform modules - cabin network management, connectivity monitoring, and observability.
• Build and maintain the OTA software lifecycle pipeline: cryptographically validated updates, staged activation, automatic rollback, and version reporting to ground-side fleet systems.
• Develop telemetry and health-monitoring infrastructure, including the device-to-cloud data pipeline for fleet monitoring.
• Integrate software across multiple cabin hardware platforms, maintaining hardware abstraction layers for portability.
• Build and execute unit, integration, requirements-based, and hardware-in-the-loop tests.
• Contribute to interface definitions and architecture decision records, and raise the bar through code reviews and design feedback.

Skills

C/C++

Python

Linux

Networking

Telemetry

OTA/firmware

CI/CD

Docker

Kubernetes

Security

Education

BS/MS in Computer Science or Electrical Engineering

Tools

Git

CI/CD tools

Job description

Amazon Leo is building a high-performance in-flight connectivity platform. We seek a Senior Software Engineer to lead design and integration across avionics, cloud, and embedded domains, delivering secure, scalable software for a growing airliner fleet.

You will work on the cabin network, OTA lifecycle, telemetry pipelines, and cross-platform integration, using Linux, C/C++, Python, Docker, and Kubernetes in an agile, security-focused environment.