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
- BS in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or equivalent.
- 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 virtualization and simulation platform used to provision and test Amazon Leo satellite systems before launch.
What you'll do
- Own the KVM/QEMU virtualization layer, including VM lifecycle, monitoring, and fault recovery.
- Develop embedded software, device drivers, and emulated hardware capabilities for virtual satellite systems.
- Build and optimize image and provisioning pipelines, networking, and deployment of satellite software to virtual entities.
What they ask for
- 3+ years of non-internship professional software development experience.
- Experience with DevOps scripting and Linux systems programming.
- Experience with virtualization or emulation.
- Familiarity with embedded Linux; BS in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or equivalent.
Nice to have
- Experience with ARM64/Graviton, QEMU device emulation, or device drivers and micro-controllers.
- Experience with network virtualization, EC2 bare-metal instances, SSM, AMI pipelines, secure hardware interfaces, or Rust.
Pay
143,700.00 - 194,400.00 USD annually (base salary)
Tools
Rust, C, C++, KVM, QEMU, Linux, Yocto, WireGuard
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