Amazon
Software Development Engineer II, Amazon Leo
$144K–$194K
Redmond, WA · Full-time · Posted Oct 29, 2026
- Experience
- 5+ years in software development life cycle and programming; preferred: 6+ years in software development life cycle and 5+ years in systems architecture and design.
- Education
- Bachelor's degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related field.
- 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
Build and operate Java backend-for-frontend APIs that orchestrate e-commerce services for Amazon Leo’s satellite internet customers.
What you'll do
- Design, deploy, and operate gateway APIs that integrate downstream services and translate and compose their responses.
- Manage distributed-system failures, retries, timeouts, latency, and reliability across service dependencies.
- Collaborate with product, frontend, and partner teams; use generative AI tools and AWS services; review code and coach teammates.
What they ask for
- 5+ years of full software development life cycle experience, including coding, reviews, source control, builds, testing, and operations.
- 5+ years programming in a modern language such as Java, C++, or C#, including object-oriented design.
- Bachelor's degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related field.
- Experience testing back end services.
Nice to have
- 6+ years of full software development life cycle experience; 5+ years contributing to systems architecture and design.
- Experience with test-driven development, dependency injection, API modeling, clean layering, or API gateway/orchestration/backend-for-frontend services.
Pay
143,700.00 - 194,400.00 USD annually (base salary)
Tools
Java, C++, C#, AWS
AI focus
Use agentic development workflows and generative AI tools to accelerate delivery; the team is investing in AI-based development and operational workflows.
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