Systems Development Engineer, Amazon Leo
Listed on 2026-10-17
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Software Development
Software Engineer, DevOps, Cloud Engineer - Software
Systems Development Engineer, Amazon Leo
Job : | Amazon Kuiper Manufacturing Enterprises LLC
Amazon Leo is Amazon’s low Earth orbit satellite broadband network. Its mission is to deliver fast, reliable internet to customers and communities around the world. We’ve designed the system with the capacity, flexibility, and performance to serve a wide range of customers, from individual households to schools, hospitals, businesses, government agencies, and other organizations operating in locations without reliable connectivity.
We are seeking an innovative and solution‑oriented System Development Engineer to join our Regulatory Engineering team to develop innovative solutions [TBD].
Key Responsibilities- Develop automated data retrieval tools to obtain external publicly‑available information for situational awareness and configuration of Kuiper operational mechanisms.
- Implement data repositories to keep track of data, constraints, and configurations.
- Implement deployment mechanisms using automated machine‑to‑machine interfaces to facilitate safe and efficient deployments of regulatory constraints to operational systems in accordance with CI/CD best practices.
- Support the development of team‑internal software tools used to analyze satellite system behavior and to determine and optimize Leo system operational constraints, including tools for satellite communications modeling and simulation, geospatial visualizations, and data analytics.
- Develop operational monitoring tools to ingest logs and poll status for system behavior validation, optimization, and early detection → reporting of issues to on‑call staff.
Due to applicable export control laws and regulations, candidates must be a U.S. citizen or national, U.S. permanent resident (i.e., current Green Card holder), or lawfully admitted into the U.S. as a refugee or granted asylum.
Basic Qualifications- 2+ years of designing or architecting new and existing systems (design patterns, reliability, scaling)
- Experience programming with at least one modern language such as Python, Ruby, Golang, Java, C++, C#, Rust
- Experience in automating, deploying, and supporting large‑scale infrastructure
- Experience with Linux/Unix
- Experience with CI/CD pipelines build processes
- Experience building services using AWS products
- Experience with geospatial tooling and libraries:
Geo Pandas, Shapely, OGR, QGIS, PostGIS (with extensions), and map projections - Working knowledge of RF communications fundamentals, basic orbital mechanics, and satellite ground systems development
- Familiarity with satellite spectrum regulatory frameworks (FCC 47 CFR Part 25, ITU Radio Regulations, or equivalent)
- Experience with data analysis using Pandas or Spark Data Frames
- Experience building data lake / lakehouse pipelines with AWS Athena, Glue, and S3
- Experience managing fleets at scale with AWS Systems Manager (SSM Agent, SSM Documents, orchestrated automation workflows)
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USA, VA, Arlington - $ - $ USD annually
Posted:
July 1, 2026 (Updated 2 days ago)
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