Amazon
Systems Development Engineer, Prime Air Drone
$99K–$160K
Seattle, WA · Full-time · Posted Oct 2, 2026
About the job
Defines, designs, verifies, and launches safety-critical autonomous ground-system features for Prime Air’s airspace mission orchestration system.
What you'll do
- Lead systems engineering for subsystems including traffic management, communications, route planning, and geospatial functions.
- Lead cross-functional trade studies to define requirements for a scalable cloud-based architecture.
- Own features through the system life cycle and produce requirements, design, test, and verification artifacts.
What they ask for
- Experience automating, deploying, and supporting infrastructure.
- Programming experience with at least one modern language, such as Python, Ruby, Golang, Java, C++, C#, or Rust.
- Experience with Linux/Unix.
Nice to have
- Experience with CI/CD pipelines build processes.
Pay
99,100.00 - 160,000.00 USD annually (base salary)
Tools
Python, Ruby, Golang, Java, C++, C#, Rust, Linux/Unix
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