Senior Software Engineer: Optical Ground Terminals & Cloud

Socket.dev; Redmond (WA); On-site; USD 168,000 - 227,000; Full time

Job summary

Amazon LEO seeks a Senior Software Development Engineer to architect and build an optical ground terminal software stack. You will own real-time device control, networking, and cloud-based operations across embedded and cloud layers, enabling scalable, autonomous ground systems.

Join a cross-disciplinary team delivering high-throughput laser communications, with opportunities to shape architecture from hardware-adjacent firmware to fleet-wide monitoring and deployment tooling.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of non-internship professional software development experience.
• Experience with TCP/IP, UDP, SSL, DNS, HTTP/S.
• Experience in one or more of: C, C++, Python, or Rust.
• Experience with Linux systems programming (kernel, drivers, networking stack, or system services).
• Experience with cloud services (AWS preferred).

Responsibilities

• Architect and develop software for ground-based optical communication terminals, spanning embedded control systems, networking stacks, and cloud infrastructure.
• Design and implement remote management and monitoring systems for geographically distributed ground terminal deployments.
• Develop networking solutions for high-throughput optical data paths, including integration with broader network infrastructure.
• Build cloud-based operations platforms for fleet management, telemetry, alarming, and performance monitoring.
• Design and implement infrastructure-as-code for automated deployment, configuration management, and scaling of ground systems.

Skills

Embedded systems

C/C++

Python

Networking

Mentor/Tech lead

Linux

Cloud (AWS)

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS or equivalent

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

Terraform

Git

Job description

Amazon LEO seeks a Senior Software Development Engineer to architect and build an optical ground terminal software stack. You will own real-time device control, networking, and cloud-based operations across embedded and cloud layers, enabling scalable, autonomous ground systems.

Join a cross-disciplinary team delivering high-throughput laser communications, with opportunities to shape architecture from hardware-adjacent firmware to fleet-wide monitoring and deployment tooling.