Amazon
Software Development Engineer , Software Defined Network Control Plane, Amazon LEO
$144K–$224K
Sunnyvale, CA +1 · Full-time · Posted Aug 5, 2026
- Location
- Sunnyvale, CA
Redmond, WA - Experience
- 3+ years of non-internship professional software development; 2+ years of non-internship systems design or architecture experience; preferred: 3+ years of full software development life cycle experience.
- Education
- Preferred: Bachelor's degree in computer science 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
Design, build, and operate the software-defined network control plane for Amazon Leo’s satellite and terrestrial broadband network.
What you'll do
- Design and deliver scalable, high-throughput, low-latency network architecture and implement routing, forwarding, traffic engineering, and SDN technologies.
- Develop highly available control-plane software for network nodes, including routing software in C and Rust.
- Automate software development, testing, and maintenance processes and support operational excellence for control-plane services.
What they ask for
- 3+ years of non-internship professional software development experience.
- 2+ years of non-internship experience designing or architecting new and existing systems, including design patterns, reliability, and scaling.
- Experience programming with at least one software programming language.
Nice to have
- 3+ years of full software development life cycle experience, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations.
- Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent.
Pay
USD 165,200.00 - 223,600.00 annually (base salary); USD 143,700.00 - 194,400.00 annually (base salary)
Tools
C, Rust, Routing and Forwarding, Traffic Engineering, SDN
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