Software Development Engineer II, Amazon Leo

Amazon.com Inc.; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 144,000 - 194,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Sign-on payments

RSUs

Health insurance

401(k) matching

Parental leave

Job summary

Amazon Leo is building the backend-for-frontend layer that orchestrates satellite internet provisioning and customer-facing services. The SDE II role focuses on designing backend gateway APIs, integrating across ordering, payments, and support systems, and delivering reliable, low-latency services at scale.

You will work with frontend, product, and partner teams to expand into new countries, with emphasis on resilient design, code quality, and AI-assisted development practices.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of full software development life cycle experience including coding standards, reviews, and operations.
• 5+ years programming in Java, C++, or C# with OO design.
• Bachelor's degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or related field.
• Experience testing back end services.

Responsibilities

• Design and build backend gateway APIs in Java to route and orchestrate requests across multiple downstream services.
• Integrate with ordering, payments, billing, equipment and network provisioning, and support services.
• Handle distributed system challenges: partial failures, retries, timeouts, and latency management.
• Collaborate with product managers, frontend engineers, and partner service teams; help the platform expand to new countries.
• Use agentic development workflows and AI tools to deliver faster and improve systems.
• Review code, provide feedback, and coach teammates on service integration patterns.
• Document software and train new team members on build, test, and operations processes.

Skills

Software development lifecycle

Java/C++/C#

Backend testing

Code reviews

APIs & services

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/Engineering/Math

Job description

Software Development Engineer II, Amazon Leo

Job ID: 10592731 | Amazon Kuiper Manufacturing Enterprises LLC

Amazon Leo is building a global e-commerce experience for Internet Service Provider (ISP) customers, and we need a Software Development Engineer II. You will build the backend-for-frontend layer, the service that sits directly behind the customer-facing surfaces and orchestrates over the many backend systems that make satellite internet work: ordering, payments, billing, equipment and network provisioning, and support.

The job is to shape what the frontend needs, route and orchestrate requests across those systems, translate between them, and compose their responses into reliable operations the customer experience can depend on. The core of the work is integration: calling many APIs, handling partial failures gracefully, mapping between different service models, and keeping latency and reliability high across a lot of moving parts. Much of this is built zero-to-one and expanding into new countries, so you will move from ambiguous problems to working products. You will own the full development lifecycle and work closely with frontend, product, and partner service teams.

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.

Key job responsibilities

• Design and build backend gateway APIs in Java that route and orchestrate requests across many downstream services, from concept through deployment and operation.
• Integrate with ordering, payments, billing, equipment and network provisioning, and support services: calling their APIs, translating between their models, and composing their responses.
• Handle the realities of a distributed system: partial failures, retries, timeouts, error translation, and keeping latency and reliability high across many dependencies.
• Work with product managers, frontend engineers, and partner service teams, and help the platform expand into new countries.
• Use agentic development workflows and generative AI tools to deliver faster, and improve the system with AWS native services.
• Review code, give feedback, and coach teammates on service integration patterns and well-tested code.
• Document your team's software and train new team members on how it is built, tested, and operated.

About the team

We build the e-commerce experience for a global ISP customer base at Amazon Leo. Our team owns the backend-for-frontend layer: the single API the customer-facing app talks to, and the orchestration behind it that connects to the systems provisioning and running satellite internet. We work hand in hand with the frontend team, shaping our APIs around what their experiences need. We are scaling the team and investing in AI-based development and operational workflows.

Basic Qualifications

• 5+ years of full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations experience
• 5+ years of programming using a modern programming language such as Java, C++, or C#, including object-oriented design experience
• Bachelor's degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related field
• Experience testing back end services

Preferred Qualifications

• 6+ years of full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations experience
• 5+ years of contributing to new and current systems architecture and design (architecture, design patterns, reliability and scaling) experience
• Experience with test-driven development
• Experience with dependency injection, API modeling, and clean layering (separating API endpoints, business-logic orchestration, and downstream service clients)
• Experience building API gateway, orchestration, or backend-for-frontend services that integrate many downstream dependencies

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 .

USA, WA, Redmond - 143,700.00 - 194,400.00 USD annually