Amazon
Senior Software Engineer , VirtSat Team
$168K–$227K
Redmond, WA · Senior · Full-time · Posted Sep 18, 2026
- Experience
- 5+ years of non-internship professional software development; 5+ years programming; 5+ years leading design or architecture. Preferred: 5+ years of full software development life cycle experience.
- Visa sponsorship
- Candidates must be a U.S. citizen or national, U.S. permanent resident (current Green Card holder), or lawfully admitted into the U.S. as a refugee or granted asylum.
About the job
Design, build, and operate VirtSat, a cloud-based virtual satellite platform for developing, testing, and validating satellite software at scale.
What you'll do
- Build AWS cloud services and workflows to provision, manage, and deploy virtual satellites throughout their lifecycle.
- Develop QEMU-based satellite subsystem emulation and tools for testing across virtualized, hardware-in-the-loop, and on-orbit environments.
- Improve platform reliability through monitoring, self-healing, failure analysis, and regression prevention; mentor engineers and lead design reviews.
What they ask for
- 5+ years of non-internship professional software development experience, including 5+ years programming in at least one language.
- 5+ years leading design or architecture of new and existing systems, including design patterns, reliability, and scaling.
- Experience mentoring, serving as a tech lead, or leading an engineering team; experience designing, building, operating, and managing large-scale distributed systems or web services.
- Linux experience; an object-oriented language (Java, Python, TypeScript, or Rust); systems integration and testing; and deep understanding of CI/CD, build, deployment, and monitoring.
Nice to have
- Experience with AWS services, embedded Linux, QEMU, or hardware virtualization/emulation.
- Experience with infrastructure-as-code, provisioning or orchestration systems, Docker/containerization, or availability and reliability engineering.
Pay
USD 168,100.00 - 227,400.00 annually (base salary)
Tools
AWS, EC2, Step Functions, DynamoDB, Lambda, QEMU, Linux, Java
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