Leo is Amazon’s low Earth orbit satellite broadband network. Its mission is to deliver fast, reliable internet to customers and communities around the world, and we’ve designed the system with the capacity, flexibility, and performance to serve a wide range of customers, from individual households to schools, hospitals, businesses, government agencies, and other organizations operating in locations without reliable connectivity.

In this role, you will develop software for the Leo Customer Terminal embedded software engineering team. You will be responsible for the design, implementation, deployment and operations of the functions for Leo Customer Terminals.

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
• Develop software for Customer Terminal devices for the Amazon Leo programs.
• Participate in all phases of SDLC including requirements, design, coding, test, deployment, and production.
• Develop embedded software in Rust, C, C++, or other modern languages
• Have in-depth knowledge with real-time embedded software philosophies and practices
• Have expertise with Linux and RTOS
• In-depth experience with networking protocols such TCP/IP, UDP, DNS, DHCP; control and data plane concepts. Familiarity with traffic classification, filtering, quality of service concepts and related standards.
• Familiarity with cryptography, threat modeling, and developing secure software.
• Support Customer Terminal deployments operations and debugging on production systems
• Technical writing of design specifications

A day in the life
You will be a leader within a team of SDEs responsible for driving the design of software for Leo customer terminal products. You will work in a collaborative environment with teams inside and outside of Amazon. You will mentor a team of software engineers on best practices while you guide your software designs from requirements gathering through mass production in a fast paced environment with rapidly changing priorities.

About the team
The Leo Customer Terminal Software Team develops and supports the devices that connect Leo subscribers to the Leo network. We provide software for the Leo Customer Terminal platform, applications and underlying Linux system. We work hand in hand with hardware engineering, product, and operations teams to deliver commercial grade services for our Leo subscribers.

Basic Qualifications

• 5+ years of non-internship professional software development experience
• 5+ years of programming with at least one software programming language experience
• 5+ 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

Preferred Qualifications

• 7+ years of full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations experience
• 7+ years of programming using a modern programming language such as Java, C++, or C#, including object-oriented design experience
• Experience in embedded development in C/C++
• Master's degree in computer science or equivalent
• Bachelor's degree or above in computer science or equivalent, or experience with at least one general-purpose programming language such as Java, Python, C++, C#, Go, Rust, or TypeScript

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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 - 168,100.00 - 227,400.00 USD annually