Senior Software Engineer, Project Leo Customer Terminals

Project Leo is Amazons low Earth orbit satellite broadband network. Its mission is to deliver fast reliable internet to customers and communities around the world and weve 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 systems 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
* Development and testing with embedded Linux
* Develop embedded software functions for Customer Terminal devices within the Project Leo system
* Developing embedded software utilizing Rust C C
* Participate in all phases of SDLC: requirements design coding test deployment and production system
* Development of software in a secure compute environment
* State machine design and analysis
* Support Customer Terminal deployments operations and debugging on production systems
* Technical writing of design specifications

A day in the life
As part of our software engineering team you will design implement and debug software used to test and debug embedded software for Leo Customer Terminal platforms in R&D and commercial operation. You will work in a collaborative environment with teams in Leo Customer Terminal hardware development software development and operations. You need to be flexible and responsive to fast changing priorities and issues. You will work on Customer Terminal issues on production system platforms.

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.

- 7 years of non-internship professional software development experience
- 7 years of programming with at least one software programming language experience
- 7 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

- 10 years of full software development life cycle including coding standards code reviews source control management build processes testing and operations experience
- Masters degree in computer science or equivalent
- Proficiency in languages suitable for system-level programming (C Rust Go)
- Experience with CI/CD pipeline setup and management
- Experience with automated testing and continuous integration

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 TX Austin - 168100.00 - 227400.00 USD annually

Required Experience:

Senior IC

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