Amazon
Sr. Software Development Engineer, Leo Autopilot
$168K–$227K
REDMOND, WA +1 · Senior · Full-time · Posted Oct 1, 2026
- Location
- REDMOND, WA
Redmond, WA - Experience
- 5+ years for each of the three stated experience requirements; no alternatives stated.
- Education
- Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent.
- Visa sponsorship
- Due to applicable export control laws and regulations, 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
Designs and builds cloud-native autonomous software that schedules and coordinates satellite operations, recovers from faults, and operates reliably across a constellation.
What you'll do
- Design and develop software systems that meet mission requirements, using Java, Python, AWS, and other Amazon technologies.
- Define technical roadmaps and select features and performance improvements to build.
- Mentor and onboard team members; collaborate with peer teams, customers, operators, and mission teams.
What they ask for
- 5+ years of non-internship professional software development experience.
- 5+ years programming with at least one software programming language.
- 5+ years leading design or architecture of new and existing systems, including design patterns, reliability, and scaling.
- Experience as a mentor, tech lead, or engineering team lead.
Nice to have
- 5+ 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
168,100.00 - 227,400.00 USD annually (base salary)
Tools
Java, Python, AWS
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