Amazon
Software Development Manager, Leo Flight Software Team
$185K–$250K
Redmond, WA · Manager · Full-time · Posted Jul 14, 2026
- Experience
- 5+ years of people management, managing engineers experience.
- Education
- BS/MS 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
Leads development and operation of VirtSat, a virtual satellite simulation platform used to provision and test satellite software before launch.
What you'll do
- Lead engineers building the Graviton bare-metal virtualization layer and its VM management, provisioning, monitoring, and recovery capabilities.
- Drive adoption with client teams, reliability and scale goals, and the technical roadmap for simulation fidelity.
- Own deployment tooling and expand VirtSat testing to reduce reliance on HITL environments.
What they ask for
- 5+ years of people management, managing engineers experience.
- Experience with embedded systems, Linux systems programming, or virtualization (KVM/QEMU).
- Experience building and operating distributed systems at scale and with infrastructure-as-code.
- Track record of hiring, developing, and retaining strong engineering teams.
Nice to have
- Experience with ARM64/Graviton bare-metal instances or QEMU device emulation and plugins.
- Familiarity with satellite systems, HITL test environments, or simulation platforms.
Pay
184,900.00 - 250,200.00 USD annually (base salary)
Tools
KVM/QEMU, AWS services — EC2, ECS, Step Functions, DynamoDB, CDK, CloudFormation, ARM64/Graviton, WireGuard, Transit Gateway, Rust
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