Sr. Software & Network Observability Leader

Amazon; Redmond (WA); On-site; USD 220,000 - 298,000; Full time

Job summary

Amazon is seeking a Sr. Software Development Manager to lead the Leo SDN team, delivering a scalable networking stack across satellites, gateways, and cloud services.

You will own the multi-year vision, drive cross-functional collaboration, and mentor engineers to achieve high performance in a complex, space-to-ground environment. The role requires extensive leadership experience, a deep background in distributed systems, and a track record of delivering large-scale software with strong

Qualifications

• Minimum 5+ years of engineering team management experience.
• 10+ years of planning, designing, developing and delivering consumer software experience.
• Experience partnering with product or program management teams.
• Experience managing multiple concurrent programs, projects and development teams in an Agile environment.

Responsibilities

• Lead a multi-layered organization of 50+ software engineers, managers, TPMs with end-to-end scope.
• Build a high-performance engineering culture grounded in ownership, velocity, and operational excellence.
• Provide career development for a group of exceptional software developers.
• Define long-term architecture and ensure scalability, reliability, and maintainability across product generations.

Skills

Engineering leadership

Program management

Agile methodologies

Distributed systems

Architecture design

Cross-functional collaboration

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or Engineering

4+ years distributed systems experience

Tools

SDN controllers

Telemetry systems

Cloud services

Agile tooling (Jira)

Job description

Amazon is seeking a Sr. Software Development Manager to lead the Leo SDN team, delivering a scalable networking stack across satellites, gateways, and cloud services.

You will own the multi-year vision, drive cross-functional collaboration, and mentor engineers to achieve high performance in a complex, space-to-ground environment. The role requires extensive leadership experience, a deep background in distributed systems, and a track record of delivering large-scale software with strong