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Salary: $168,100 - 227,400 per year Requirements:

• We require 5+ years of non-internship professional software development experience.
• We require 5+ years of programming experience in at least one software programming language.
• We require 5+ years of experience leading the design or architecture of new and existing systems, including patterns for reliability and scaling.
• We require experience as a mentor, technical lead, or engineering team lead.
• We prefer 5+ years of full software development life cycle experience, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations.
• We prefer a bachelors degree in computer science or an equivalent qualification.
• We require candidates to be a U.S. citizen or national, U.S. permanent resident, or lawfully admitted into the U.S. as a refugee or granted asylum.

• We design and deliver a modern, flexible, scalable, high-throughput, low-latency network architecture.
• We implement routing and forwarding, traffic engineering, and SDN technologies to support best-in-class broadband network services.
• We build highly available software that operates the networking control plane on physical and remote nodes.
• We define and automate processes for software development, implementation, testing, and maintenance.
• We provide operational excellence for control plane services, including tooling and process refinement.
• We develop routing control plane software for network nodes in C and Rust.
• We work across satellite ground control services, customer engagement systems, and monitoring services to fine-tune the network and improve service quality.

• Cloud
• Support
• Network
• Rust

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We are Amazon Leo, Amazons low Earth orbit satellite network, on a mission to deliver fast, reliable internet connectivity to customers beyond the reach of existing networks. Our service is designed for households, schools, hospitals, businesses, and government agencies operating in areas without dependable connectivity. The SDN Control Plane team is building the brain of the LEO network, designing, implementing, and operating the control plane for a high-throughput telecom service that spans satellites, customer terminals, gateways, cloud services, and terrestrial infrastructure connected to public and private networks. This role is based in Redmond, Washington, and we offer comprehensive benefits, including health insurance, 401(k) matching, paid time off, parental leave, and additional compensation components such as sign-on payments and restricted stock units. The listed base salary range is 168,100.00 to 227,400.00 USD annually.

last updated 35 week of 2026

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