System Development Engineer, Amazon Leo

Job description

Project LEO is an initiative to launch a constellation of Low Earth Orbit satellites that will provide low-latency, high-speed broadband network connectivity to unserved and underserved communities around the world.

Have you wanted an opportunity to develop software for an advanced satellite broadband telecom service? The observability and Flight SW release team owns creating the software that runs on the flight computer on the satellite and owns building the observability and troubleshooting experience for the satellites that are orbiting up in space.

The systems we build serve a fundamental role in the successful operation of the satellite constellation, these systems need to have mission-critical reliability, uptime, and performance.

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

The Sys Dev Engineer is responsible to support suite of software applications and services to create software releases for the Flight Computer for the satellite. Your support will affect the mission and our customers directly! High impact production operations and issue triaging often require coordination between multiple Development, Product and Support teams, so you get to experience a breadth of impact with various groups.

It’ll definitely help for you to be detail-oriented and a skilled problem solver, because you’ll also be helping us to streamline our processes—and automating them where applicable.

Primary responsibilities include building automation tooling to support software releases, troubleshooting, diagnosing and fixing production software issues, developing tools, automation and monitoring solutions, performing software maintenance and configuration, implementing the fix for internally developed code (Python and/or React), updating, tracking and resolving technical challenges and improving operational excellence and readiness of the systems.