Software Development Engineer, Network Control Plane

Salary: $143,400 - 143,400 per year Requirements:

• We require 3+ years of non-internship professional software development experience.
• We require 2+ years of non-internship experience in system design or architecture, including design patterns, reliability, and scaling for new and existing systems.
• We require experience programming in at least one software language.
• We prefer 3+ years of full software development lifecycle 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 background.

• 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 provide 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 refinement of operational procedures.
• We develop routing control plane software for network nodes using C and Rust.
• We work with satellite ground control services, customer engagement systems, and monitoring services to continually improve network performance and customer experience.

• Cloud
• Support
• Network
• Rust

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Amazon Leo is our low Earth orbit satellite network, created to deliver fast, reliable internet connectivity to customers beyond the reach of existing networks. We support households, schools, hospitals, businesses, and government agencies operating in locations without dependable connectivity. Our SDN Control Plane team is building the core intelligence behind the Leo Network, tackling global-scale networking challenges across satellites, customer terminals, gateways, cloud services, and terrestrial infrastructure. This role is based in Redmond, Washington, and we offer a comprehensive benefits package that includes health insurance, 401(k) matching, paid time off, parental leave, sign-on payments, and RSUs.

last updated 37 week of 2026