Amazon
Software Development Engineer , Leo Secure Communications Team
$144K–$194K
Redmond, WA · Full-time · Posted Aug 27, 2026
- Experience
- 3+ years professional software development; 2+ years design or architecture; 1+ years software development engineer or related occupational experience; 1+ years qualifying application development; 1+ years Object Oriented Design. Preferred: 3+ years full software development life cycle experience.
- 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
Develop and operate low-level embedded firmware for secure communications among satellite systems, from requirements and design through implementation, testing, and operations.
What you'll do
- Develop embedded software in C++ and Rust, including software that interacts with microcontrollers.
- Design and develop secure software, including low-level components such as device drivers and Linux kernel modules.
- Collaborate across teams on software requirements and architecture; integrate and improve software for embedded hardware.
What they ask for
- 3+ years of non-internship professional software development experience.
- 2+ years of non-internship design or architecture experience; 1+ years of software development engineer or related occupational experience.
- 1+ years designing and developing large-scale, multi-tiered, multi-threaded, embedded or distributed applications using C#, C++, Java, or Perl; 1+ years of Object Oriented Design experience.
- Bachelor's degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related field; experience programming with at least one software programming language.
Nice to have
- 3+ years of full software development life cycle experience.
- Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent.
Pay
USD 143,700.00 - 194,400.00 annually (base salary)
Tools
C++, Rust, C#, Java, Perl, Linux
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