Software Development Manager, Leo RTI, Leo

Description

Amazon Leo is Amazon's low Earth orbit satellite network. Our mission is to deliver fast, reliable broadband connectivity to customers beyond the reach of existing networks. From households to small businesses, schools, hospitals, and government agencies, Amazon Leo will serve communities and organizations operating in places without dependable internet access.

We are seeking a Software Development Manager to lead the team responsible for building and owning the RTI infrastructure and automation framework. This role sits at the intersection of people leadership, automation, data analytics, and MAC domain expertise, OS domain expertise, with the goal of democratizing OS features on embedded system.

As the SDM for this team, you will hire, develop, and lead a team of SDEs building the RTI system and OS bring up for a custom ASIC in LEO system.you will maintain the OS drivers, IPC, telemetry, dashboards from the custom ASIC

Hire, mentor, and grow a high-performing team of SDEs focused on embedded and automation

Set technical direction and priorities, balancing short-term deliverables with long-term architectural investments

Foster a culture of operational excellence, innovation, and continuous improvement

Drive career development for team members, providing regular coaching and feedback

Collaborate cross-functionally with MAC domain experts, release teams, and system teams to align on roadmaps and dependencies

Own the end-to-end delivery of RTI system software, including OS drivers, Inter-Process Communication (IPC) frameworks, and telemetry infrastructure

Drive OS bring-up activities for the custom ASIC, ensuring stable and performant firmware foundations

Maintain and evolve OS drivers to support hardware capabilities and system requirements

Oversee the design and maintenance of telemetry pipelines and operational dashboards for system health monitoring

Make architecture decisions that balance performance, reliability, and maintainability for space-grade embedded systems

Export Control Requirement:
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.

• 3+ years of engineering team management experience

• 7+ years of engineering experience

• Knowledge of engineering practices and patterns for the full software/hardware/networks development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, certification, and livesite operations

• Experience partnering with product or program management teams

• Experience in networking, large-scale distributed systems or a related field

• Experience in communicating with users, other technical teams, and senior leadership to collect requirements, describe software product features, technical designs, and product strategy

• Experience in recruiting, hiring, mentoring/coaching and managing teams of Software Engineers to improve their skills, and make them more effective, product software engineers

• Experience working in a network planning, network construction/implementation, or commercial implementation role at an ISP, telecoms operator, or Hyperscaler

• Master's degree in Electrical/Communications Engineering, or 5+ years of wireless communications systems and implementation experience

• Experience in ETL management/data pipeline

• Experience with version control systems and CI/CD pipeline implementation

Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status.

Los Angeles County applicants:
Job duties for this position include: work safely and cooperatively with other employees, supervisors, and staff; adhere to standards of excellence despite stressful conditions; communicate effectively and respectfully with employees, supervisors, and staff to ensure exceptional customer service; and follow all federal, state, and local laws and Company policies. Criminal history may have a…