
Software Development Engineer, Leo Telemetry Platform
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Job overview
Amazon Leo is developing a low Earth orbit satellite network to provide internet connectivity in areas without reliable networks. The Software Development Engineer will build and maintain Atlas infrastructure for ingesting, processing, visualizing, and monitoring satellite telemetry. The systems support anomaly detection, trend analysis, and critical alerts across the constellation, with a focus on reliability, uptime, performance, and scalability.
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Description
Amazon Leo is Amazon’s low Earth orbit satellite network. Our mission is to deliver fast, reliable internet connectivity to customers beyond the reach of existing networks. From individual households to schools, hospitals, businesses, and government agencies, Amazon Leo will serve people and organizations operating in locations without reliable connectivity.
Are you passionate about developing mission-critical software systems? As part of the Atlas team, you'll build and maintain the backbone software infrastructure that powers our entire organization. Your work will include:
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Creating systems and services for ingesting, processing, and visualizing vast amounts of satellite telemetry data
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Building real-time monitoring systems to identify anomalies, detect emerging trends, and proactively alert stakeholders to critical situations that require intervention
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Ensuring extremely high reliability, uptime, and performance across systems that receive and manage telemetry streams from thousands of endpoint
The systems we build serve a fundamental role in the successful functioning of the satellite constellation, and several supporting teams. They depend on us to have mission-critical reliability, uptime, and performance.
Key job responsibilities
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Develop software systems that meet the mission criteria and requirements.
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Collaborate with your fellow team members to form a strong foundation for a software organization in Leo.
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Help on-board new team members.
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Utilize AWS and other Amazon technologies to build high-available software services.
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.
About the team
The Atlas software engineering group is responsible for developing and maintaining the critical software infrastructure that enables multi-region telemetry data ingestion, health monitoring, and trend analysis across Amazon's Leo systems. As the core team building and managing these foundational data pipelines and analytics systems, the Atlas team bears significant ownership and responsibility to ensure high availability, performance, and scalability are met to satisfy business needs.
Basic Qualifications
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3+ years of non-internship professional software development experience
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3+ years of non-internship design or architecture (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
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Experience programming with at least one software programming language
Preferred Qualifications
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3+ years of full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations experience
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Bachelor's degree in 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 - 143,700.00 - 194,400.00 USD annually
How this job compares
Set against the 1,371 open Software Development Engineer jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 6, 2026.
- Pay
- This posting$144–194K/yr
- Washington median$144–194K/yr455 salary ranges
- US median$144–194K/yr1,245 salary ranges
This range's midpoint, $169K, is close to the Washington median midpoint ($169K) — in the middle half of Software Development Engineer salary ranges in Washington.
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 463 open Software Development Engineer jobs in Washington and 1,371 across the US. 2% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Experience
- This posting asks for at least 3 years of experience; Software Development Engineer postings that state a minimum ask for 3 years at the median (1,220 postings).
- Education
- 601 of the 1,371 open Software Development Engineer jobs (44%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 6, 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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