SDE II, Leo Autopilot

Amazon • Redmond, WA

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About The Position

Amazon Leo is an initiative to increase global broadband access through a
constellation of 3,236 satellites in low Earth orbit (LEO). Its mission is to
bring fast, affordable broadband to unserved and underserved communities around
the world. Amazon Leo will help close the digital divide by delivering fast,
affordable broadband to a wide range of customers, including consumers,
businesses, government agencies, and other organizations operating in places
without reliable connectivity.

As a Software Development Engineer, you will play a crucial role in the
development of services to support the automation of the Leo mission. You will
work with a dynamic group of passionate engineers and collaborators across peer
teams to identify automation needs, design novel solutions that meet customer
requirements, and write software to automate key behaviors for our
constellation's space and ground assets. You will be building low-latency,
highly-scalable architecture to generate and execute our mission plans safely
and effectively.

The Autopilot team builds software which supports the automated planning and
execution of satellite activities, empowering humans to automate key tasks and
take themselves out of the loop as we scale the Leo constellation. We own
services that model spacecraft behaviors, predict future vehicle state, capture
operational constraints on our system, and generate mission schedules that serve
our customers while preserving vehicle health and safety.

Requirements

• 3+ years of non-internship professional software development experience
• 2+ years of non-internship design or architecture (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
• Experience programming with at least one software programming language

Nice To Haves

• 3+ 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

Responsibilities

• Work with our peer teams and customers to design suitable software systems to fulfill the mission needs.
• Develop cloud native software systems in Java and Python.
• Utilize AWS and other Amazon technologies to build highly-available software services.
• Design and develop performant software systems that meet the mission criteria and requirements.
• Help on-board and mentor new team members.
• Lead technical roadmap definition efforts and decide which features and performance improvements to build.

Benefits

• 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
• parental leave

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level