Software Development Engineer (SDE), SDN, Amazon LEO
Software Development Engineer (SDE), SDN, Amazon LEO at Amazon — Redmond, WA, US
- Company: Amazon
- Location: Redmond, WA, US
- Posted: 2026-09-02
About this role
Amazon LEO is an inititative to launch a constellation of Low Earth Orbit satellites that will provide low-latency, high speed broadband connectivity to unserved and underserved communities around the world.
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
Do you want to put code in space? Have you wanted an opportunity to develop the core wireless and networking for an advanced global telecom service spanning both space and terrestrial networks? Have you wondered what it takes to solve a multi-dimentional resource allocation problem at global scale?
For this role, you will:
- Take responsibility for designing and delivering a modern, flexible, scalable, high throughput, low latency network architecture
- Implement workflows to orchestrate on orbit payload activities
- Implement highly-available software that will drive networking control plane operation on physical and virtual nodes
- Define and automate processes used for software development, implementation, testing, and maintenance
- Provide operational excellence for control plane services, to including enabling toolsand definition/refinement of operational processes
- Diagnose routing and forwarding issues across the control plane, data plane, and physical topology.
- Integrate telemetry, topology, link-state, and network-condition data into route computation and control systems.
- Develop routing behavior for topology transitions, link changes, node movement, degraded links, and failures.
A day in the life
This is an opportunity to be at the heart of the design, building and operation of a massive satellite constellation and terrestrial network. We interact with the satellite ground control services, the customer engagement systems and monitoring services to constantly fine-tune our network and deliver a high quality service to our customers. You will be responsible to build the best network for our customers.
About the team
The Software Defined Network (SDN) Controller team is building the brain that drives the LEO Network. Our mission is clear: we own network planning for the entire LEO ecosystem. Every plan that coordinates Customer Terminals, Satellites, Gateways, and the rest of the network flows through our team. And the scale is significant — we generate plans for millions of Customer Terminals and deliver them reliably and on time. When we get it right, millions of people around the globe stay connected to the internet. That is the kind of impact our work delivers.
What makes this team distinctive is where we sit: at the intersection of space and software. We work closely with other LEO teams — network data plane, hardware, satellites, and more — close enough to shape how the physical network behaves, while remaining firmly grounded in the software engineering discipline we are passionate about. You get the excitement of building for orbit without ever stepping away from your craft.
Simply put, we are a team that cares deeply about both space and software. If that combination excites you, we would love to have you build the future of connectivity with us.
- 3+ years of non-internship professional software development experience
- 2+ years of non-internship design or architecture (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
- Experience programming with at least one software programming language
- 3+ 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
- Knowledge of professional software engineering & best practices for full software development life cycle, including coding standards, software architectures, code reviews, source control management, continuous deployments, testing, and operational excellence
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
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