At a Glance
- Tasks: Lead the design and development of innovative network control systems for satellite communication.
- Company: Join Amazon Leo, a pioneering tech company transforming global connectivity.
- Benefits: Competitive salary, comprehensive health benefits, remote work options, and career growth opportunities.
- Other info: Collaborative environment with opportunities to mentor and grow your technical leadership skills.
- Why this job: Make a real impact on global connectivity while working with cutting-edge technology.
- Qualifications: 5+ years in software development and experience leading engineering teams.
The predicted salary is between 135000 - 165000 $ per year.
Amazon Leo is building a constellation of Low Earth Orbit (LEO) satellites to deliver low-latency, high-speed broadband connectivity to unserved and underserved communities around the world. With hundreds of satellites already in orbit and the service now in beta, we are scaling rapidly and building new features across the network.
As a Senior Software Development Engineer on the Software Defined Networking (SDN) Control Plane team, you will lead the design and development of the network control plane that orchestrates traffic across satellites, customer terminals, gateways, and terrestrial infrastructure. You will tackle multi-dimensional problems at global scale, set technical direction for your team, and collaborate closely with hardware teams, scientists, embedded software engineers, and mission operations to shape how our network performs and grows.
Key job responsibilities:
- Design and deliver scalable, high-throughput, low-latency services for the SDN control plane, defining conventions and technical solutions that guide the team's engineering direction.
- Build link planning, routing, and control plane delivery services in Rust for network nodes spanning satellite and terrestrial infrastructure.
- Develop highly available control plane services along with the operational tooling, dashboards, and observability features needed to monitor and maintain system health.
- Collaborate with hardware teams, scientists, embedded software engineers, mission planning, and mission operations to ensure the control plane integrates cleanly across the broader Leo network.
- Drive software quality across the full lifecycle — from technical design and code review through testing, deployment, and on-call operational support — while mentoring other engineers on best practices.
A day in the life:
Your week balances focused, heads-down engineering with regular collaboration. You participate in standups, design reviews, operations reviews, and weekly demos where the team shares progress and gathers feedback. Between those touchpoints you work independently on roadmap-driven projects — designing control plane features, writing and reviewing code, or building observability tooling that keeps the network running smoothly. Because the SDN sits at the center of the Leo network, you regularly connect with partner teams in hardware, embedded software, and mission operations to align on interfaces and resolve cross-system challenges.
About the team:
The SDN Control Plane team builds and operates the brain of the Leo network. We own the distributed systems that route traffic across a growing constellation of LEO satellites, customer terminals, gateways, and terrestrial links. Our work directly determines the quality of service our customers experience. We are a collaborative, roadmap-driven team that values thoughtful design and operational rigor. You will receive guidance from peers and engineering leadership, and you will have the opportunity to grow your technical leadership skills by setting architectural direction and influencing decisions that span multiple teams.
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:
- 5+ 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
Senior Software Development Engineer, Software Defined Network Control Plane in Redmond employer: Amazon Inc.
At Amazon Web Services (AWS), we pride ourselves on being a leading employer in the cloud technology sector, offering a dynamic work environment that fosters innovation and collaboration. Our commitment to employee growth is evident through extensive training programs and mentorship opportunities, ensuring that every team member can advance their career while enjoying a healthy work-life balance. With a culture that values diversity and inclusion, AWS provides a unique opportunity to work with cutting-edge technologies in a supportive atmosphere, making it an exceptional place for Cloud Support Engineers to thrive.
