Senior Technical Program Manager, Payload SW
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Job overview
Amazon Leo is developing a low Earth orbit satellite broadband network to provide reliable internet worldwide. The Senior Technical Program Manager will lead programs for Satellite Payload and Data Plane software, coordinating engineering and product teams to plan and deliver complex, multi-subsystem development, testing, and integration. The role focuses on execution, technical trade-offs, dependencies, schedules, budgets, risks, and quality across the end-to-end network solution.
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Description
Amazon Leo is Amazon’s low Earth orbit satellite broadband network. Its mission is to deliver fast, reliable internet to customers and communities around the world, and we’ve 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.
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.
The Amazon Leo team is looking for a Senior Technical Program Manager with experience in aerospace/satellite communications/networking software, project management, and program management. The role will interface with cross-functional engineering and program/product management teams with primary focus on delivering top quality Satellite Payload and Data Plane software. Join us and make a difference to people around the world.
Key job responsibilities
In this role you will:
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Collaborate with engineering leaders to create project plans for Satellite Payload and Data Plane software development.
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Work with product/program management to ensure that development meets schedule, cost, and quality requirements.
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Drive engineering project execution, make technical trade-offs, track and report on status, and resolve blocking issues.
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Collaborate with architecture, hardware, software, firmware teams on ensuring cross-functional deliverables are identified and tracked.
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Aggregate and convert technical specifications for Leo's Satellite Payload and Data Plane software systems
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Establish mechanisms to manage scrums, tasks, budgets, dashboards, schedule and overall delivery for the Satellite Payload and Data Plane software
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Map HW / SW co-dependencies and track accuracy of plans and technical developments for all major milestones
A day in the life
In this role, you will build and scale Project Leo’s Satellite Payload and Data Plane software development programs. You are accountable for creating and working the complex multi-subsystem program plan for the development, test and delivery of Leo's Satellite Payload system and Data Plane, and their integration with rest of Leo system for delivering an end-to-end network solution with an exceptional quality of experience for our customers.
About the team
The Team is responsible for Architecture, design and delivering and end to end Networking systems for both constellation and ground, as well as the services that utilize the network to delivery last mile and back-haul internet services.
Basic Qualifications
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8+ years of technical program management working directly with software engineering teams experience
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3+ years of project management disciplines including scope, schedule, budget, quality, along with risk and critical path management experience
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3+ years of software development experience
Preferred Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in engineering, computer science or equivalent
Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status.
Our inclusive culture empowers Amazonians to deliver the best results for our customers. If you have a disability and need a workplace accommodation or adjustment during the application and hiring process, including support for the interview or onboarding process, please visit https://amazon.jobs/content/en/how-we-hire/accommodations for more information. If the country/region you’re applying in isn’t listed, please contact your Recruiting Partner.
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 - 148,700.00 - 201,200.00 USD annually
How this job compares
Set against the 3,825 open Technical Program Manager jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 10, 2026.
- Pay
- This posting$149–201K/yr
- Washington median$149–205K/yr361 salary ranges
- US median$135–215K/yr3,491 salary ranges
This range's midpoint, $175K, is close to the Washington median midpoint ($175K) — in the middle half of Technical Program Manager salary ranges in Washington.
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 372 open Technical Program Manager jobs in Washington and 3,825 across the US. 5% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Experience
- This posting asks for at least 8 years of experience; Technical Program Manager postings that state a minimum ask for 7 years at the median (3,091 postings).
- Education
- 774 of the 3,825 open Technical Program Manager jobs (20%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 10, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.
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