Amazon
Software Development Engineer, Leo Flight Software Team
$144K–$194K
Redmond, WA · Full-time · Posted Sep 18, 2026
- Experience
- 3+ years of non-internship professional software development experience.
- Education
- Bachelor's degree in computer science, electrical engineering, or 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 scale VirtSat, a virtual satellite simulation platform, including its virtualization layer and software used to test satellite systems before launch.
What you'll do
- Own KVM/QEMU virtualization, VM lifecycle, monitoring, and fault recovery on Graviton bare-metal infrastructure.
- Develop embedded software, drivers, and applications for virtual satellite hardware and peripherals.
- Build provisioning and networking capabilities, optimize boot and deployment, and debug host, guest, and emulation issues.
What they ask for
- 3+ years of non-internship professional software development experience.
- Experience with Bash/shell scripting and Perl/Python automation.
- Bachelor's degree in computer science, electrical engineering, or a related field.
- Experience with Linux systems programming, virtualization or emulation, and embedded Linux.
Nice to have
- Experience with ARM64 or Graviton, QEMU emulation, device drivers, micro-controllers, or network virtualization.
- Experience with satellite simulation, EC2/SSM, AMI pipelines, secure boot/HSM, Python packaging, containers, or Rust.
Pay
143,700.00 - 194,400.00 USD annually (base salary)
Tools
Rust, C, C++, Bash, Perl, Python, KVM, QEMU
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