Sr. Software Dev Engineer, Amazon Leo OISL

ID: 6342

Type: Full-time

Category: Others

Company Name: Amazon Kuiper Manufacturing Enterprises LLC

Location: USA, WA, REDMOND - Redmond - United States

Salary: 168,100.00 - 227,400.00 USD annually

Job Description

Amazon LEO is an initiative to increase global broadband access through a constellation of 3,236 satellites in low Earth orbit (LEO). Its mission is to bring fast, affordable broadband to unserved and underserved communities around the world. Amazon LEO will help close the digital divide by delivering fast, affordable broadband to a wide range of customers, including consumers, businesses, government agencies, and other organizations operating in places without reliable connectivity.

We are seeking an exceptional Senior Software Engineer to lead our team in building the operational backbone of a revolutionary laser communication network connecting satellites in space and ground stations on Earth. This is a high-impact leadership role where you'll drive multiple concurrent projects that directly enable network operations at unprecedented scale.

The Opportunity
You'll architect and deliver mission-critical tools and services that power network operations for our dynamic space-based laser link infrastructure. Working in an environment where ambiguity meets innovation, you'll transform complex, evolving requirements into elegant, scalable solutions while mentoring and leading a team of engineers to execute your vision.

What You'll Build
Design and develop sophisticated multi-layered services that collect real-time telemetry from our satellite constellation, analyze network topology, and intelligently correlate data to identify and resolve faults. Your systems will automatically trigger remediation runbooks, escalate issues to appropriate teams, and leverage machine learning and generative AI to detect anomalies, perform root cause analysis, and predict customer impact before it occurs.

What We're Looking For
You bring proven experience architecting and delivering complex, distributed systems in production environments. As a full-stack engineer, you possess both the technical depth to build clean, maintainable back-end services and the product sensibility to create intuitive, actionable visualizations that operators can trust and understand at a glance. Your meticulous attention to detail manifests in every layer of the stack—from elegant API design and robust data pipelines to thoughtful UI/UX that transforms complex telemetry into clear operational insights.

You excel at breaking down ambitious technical roadmaps into actionable milestones and have a track record of successfully onboarding and elevating junior engineers. Deep expertise in distributed cloud services and infrastructure-as-code principles is essential, as is the ability to thrive in high-ownership, high-accountability environments where your decisions directly impact mission success.

Why This Role Matters
Your work will be the operational nervous system of our space network—enabling seamless connectivity, ensuring reliability, and pushing the boundaries of what's possible in space-based communications.
If you're passionate about solving hard problems at the intersection of space technology, distributed systems, and operational excellence, we want to hear from you.

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
• Lead end-to-end automation initiatives as a team leader, developing sophisticated tools and services that address complex network operations, debugging, and troubleshooting challenges while guiding team efforts and priorities.

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to analyze network architecture, stakeholder requirements, and customer needs; architect and implement software solutions that deliver measurable business value.

• Design and implement AI/ML solutions utilizing AWS services to enhance space network operations and problem resolution.

• Drive data-driven decision making by developing and maintaining comprehensive network KPI (Key Performance Indicators) systems, including databases, dashboards, and visualization platforms for performance monitoring and reporting.

• Provide technical leadership and mentorship as a team leader to software/network engineers through effective task delegation, project management, and onboarding programs to optimize team productivity and development cycles.

A day in the life
As Senior Software Engineer, you begin your day by reviewing satellite network data, identifying anomalies, and formulating mitigation plans. You then analyze the performance metrics of the team's software tools/services, using these insights to guide your decision-making. Drawing on your deep expertise in distributed systems, cloud infrastructure, and DevOps, you lead cross-functional discussions to collaboratively design scalable architectures that automate data collection, analysis, and issue resolution. Throughout the day, you mentor junior engineers, align stakeholders, update project plans, showcasing your technical prowess, problem-solving skills, exceptional leadership to ensure the reliable operation of complex space satellite network.

About the team
The Optical Inter-Satellite Link (OISL) organization is responsible for the design, development, and manufacturing of critical hardware and software that makes laser links between satellites possible. We are rapidly expanding and developing a new Network Automation team. We are looking for a senior software engineer to join and lead our new team to develop novel software services that can automate fault finding based on satellite data, automate workflows and operational procedures, and use ML/AI to find and correlate anomalies in the space network, identify root causes, and predict customer impacts.

Basic Qualifications

- 8+ years of non-internship professional software development experience
- 6+ years of programming with at least one software programming language experience
- 6+ 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
- 6+ years of designing and developing large-scale, multi-tiered, multi-threaded, distributed software applications, tools, systems, and services using: Java, JavaScript, TS, Python, React, Angular, etc.
- Experience with AWS services such as EC2, S3, SQS, SNS, Lambda, Kafka, DynamoDB and event-driven systems etc.

Preferred Qualifications

- 8+ 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.

Our inclusive culture empowers Amazonians to deliver the best results for our customers. If you have a disability and need a workplace accommodation or adjustment during the application and hiring process, including support for the interview or onboarding process, please visit https://amazon.jobs/content/en/how-we-hire/accommodations for more information. If the country/region you’re applying in isn’t listed, please contact your Recruiting Partner.

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 - 168,100.00 - 227,400.00 USD annually

Company Information

Company Name: Amazon Kuiper Manufacturing Enterprises LLC

Company Website: https://www.aboutamazon.com/what-is/project-kuiper

Company Address: USA, WA, Redmond

Amazon Kuiper Manufacturing Enterprises LLC is an Amazon-associated corporate entity created to support the development, production and operational deployment activities for Project Kuiper, Amazon’s initiative to develop a broadband satellite network in low Earth orbit (LEO). The company functions within the broader Project Kuiper organization and is focused on the industrial, engineering and manufacturing aspects required to design, build, and integrate spacecraft, user terminals and associated hardware, as part of Amazon’s effort to establish a global satellite broadband service. Public information published by Amazon about Project Kuiper frames the program’s goals in terms of building a LEO satellite constellation, associated ground infrastructure and customer-premises equipment to deliver high-speed, low-latency broadband connectivity to unserved and underserved communities; Amazon Kuiper Manufacturing Enterprises LLC exists as one of the legal entities established to carry out the program’s manufacturing, supply-chain and industrial activities. As a manufacturing and systems-integration organization tied to a major commercial space program, the company’s core business activities are centered on hardware engineering, production readiness and industrial-scale assembly for space systems. These activities include supporting spacecraft bus and payload assembly, production planning and quality assurance; coordinating the manufacture and supply of user terminals and customer premises equipment (CPE) such as phased-array antennas or other consumer terminals; establishing and operating test, integration and environmental verification facilities; and implementing production-line processes necessary to meet the volume and reliability requirements of a commercial LEO constellation. The entity also supports logistics, supplier qualification, procurement for specialty electronic and mechanical components, and regulatory compliance activities that relate specifically to manufacturing and integration of aerospace hardware. Amazon Kuiper Manufacturing Enterprises LLC’s primary outputs and services therefore include satellite hardware components and assembled satellites ready for final test and launch integration, production-configured user terminal hardware for consumer and enterprise customers, and manufactured subsystems that support ground segment operations such as gateways and network instrumentation. Beyond physical products, the organization provides engineering, manufacturing and integration services necessary to move designs from prototype through qualification and into production. This includes establishing production lines and test facilities, implementing manufacturing best practices for electronics and aerospace assemblies, and coordinating with other technical organizations within Project Kuiper and Amazon to ensure seamless handoffs between design, software, operations and launch partners. The company’s role is tightly coupled with several non-manufacturing functions that are nonetheless essential to a modern space-manufacturing program. These include coordination with supply-chain and procurement teams to secure long-lead and custom components; liaising with regulatory, legal and spectrum-management groups to ensure hardware and terminals comply with applicable authorizations; implementing traceability, configuration management and high-reliability quality systems typical of aerospace manufacturing; and supporting field deployment work for gateways and customer installations. Amazon’s public materials on Project Kuiper emphasize the need for a vertically integrated approach to support scalable deployment of satellites and terminals, and Amazon Kuiper Manufacturing Enterprises LLC represents the manufacturing/legal node within that approach. Industry context: Amazon Kuiper Manufacturing Enterprises LLC operates at the intersection of aerospace manufacturing, satellite communications and consumer telecommunications hardware. The broader Project Kuiper program is publicly described by Amazon as a LEO satellite broadband initiative intended to expand high-speed internet access; accordingly, the manufacturing activities undertaken by this entity are aligned with aerospace systems engineering, satellite manufacturing, and telecommunications equipment production. As part of that ecosystem, the company adheres to manufacturing standards and practices appropriate for spaceflight hardware—environmental testing, reliability engineering, EEE parts control, and assemblies compatible with launch environments—and it supports the downstream network operations and customer-equipment deployments required for a commercial satellite broadband service. Affiliations and corporate role: Amazon Kuiper Manufacturing Enterprises LLC is an Amazon-branded legal entity associated with Project Kuiper. While corporate filings and public Amazon statements identify Project Kuiper as an Amazon initiative, this manufacturing entity is one of several Amazon legal entities and teams assembled to execute the program’s varied technical, regulatory and operational needs. Public-facing Project Kuiper communications underline Amazon’s commitments to building the constellation, deploying ground infrastructure and delivering consumer devices; the manufacturing enterprise named here is the explicit organizational focus on turning engineering designs into producible, testable hardware for that vision. Publicly verifiable information about the entity is typically found within Amazon’s Project Kuiper disclosures, corporate filings and regulatory submissions that identify Amazon’s organizational structure for the program. Official Amazon Project Kuiper materials provide high-level descriptions of objectives, required industrial capabilities and the types of products and services the program will deliver (LEO satellites, user terminals and ground infrastructure). For details on specific facilities, partner suppliers, production capacity, or the legal domicile and registered office of Amazon Kuiper Manufacturing Enterprises LLC, reviewers should consult Amazon’s official Project Kuiper pages, corporate filings and the filings or notices submitted to regulatory bodies and registries where the legal entity is registered.

Visit company vacancy