Amazon
Software Development Engineer, VirtSat Team
$144K–$194K
Redmond, WA · Full-time · Posted Oct 9, 2026
- Experience
- 3+ years professional software development; 2+ years system design or architecture; 1+ year software development engineer or related occupational experience; 1+ year large-scale software application development and 1+ year Object Oriented 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 cloud services and APIs that simulate and orchestrate software for Project Leo satellites, ground gateways, and customer terminals.
What you'll do
- Design, build, and operate scalable distributed systems and production cloud software for satellite constellation simulation and planning.
- Collaborate with peer teams and customers to define systems and technical roadmaps; write Java services using AWS technologies.
- Define and automate software development, testing, maintenance, and operational processes; help onboard and mentor team members.
What they ask for
- 3+ years of non-internship professional software development experience.
- 2+ years of non-internship design or architecture experience involving design patterns, reliability, and scaling.
- At least 1 year of experience designing and developing large-scale software applications, tools, systems, or services using C#, C++, Java, or Perl; at least 1 year of Object Oriented Design experience.
- Bachelor's degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related field; programming experience in at least one language.
Nice to have
- Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent.
- 3+ years of full software development life cycle experience, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations.
Pay
143,700.00 - 194,400.00 USD annually (base salary)
Tools
Java, AWS, C#, C++, Perl
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