Senior Software Engineer , VirtSat Team

Description

Amazon Leo is developing a constellation of 3,236 low-Earth-orbit satellites to increase global broadband access.

The VirtSat platform provides high-fidelity virtual satellite environments for software development, testing, and validation at scale.

The role works across cloud services, embedded software, and test automation.

Key Job Responsibilities

• Design and implement AWS cloud services for satellite entity provisioning, management, and deployment.

• Develop lifecycle workflows from instance launch through embedded software deployment and test readiness.

• Build QEMU-based hardware-emulation plugins for satellite subsystems.

• Create automated monitoring, alarming, and self-healing mechanisms targeting platform availability above 99.5%.

• Develop test tooling for virtualized satellites, hardware-in-the-loop flatsats, and on-orbit vehicles.

• Implement pre-validation, fail-fast, and retry mechanisms for provisioning workflows.

• Analyze platform failures, implement fixes, and prevent regressions.

• Mentor junior engineers, lead design reviews, and promote engineering excellence.

Basic Qualifications

• At least 5 years of non-internship professional software development experience.

• At least 5 years of programming experience with at least one software programming language.

• At least 5 years of experience leading design or architecture for new and existing systems.

• Experience as a mentor, technical lead, or engineering-team leader.

• Experience designing, building, operating, and managing large-scale distributed systems or web services.

• Experience working with Linux operating systems.

• Experience with at least one object-oriented programming language, including Java, Python, TypeScript, or Rust.

• Experience with systems integration and testing methodologies.

• Deep understanding of CI/CD, build, deployment, and monitoring.

Preferred Qualifications

• At least 5 years of full software development life-cycle experience is preferred.

• AWS services experience, including EC2, Step Functions, Lambda, DynamoDB, CloudWatch, or S3, is preferred.

• Embedded Linux, QEMU, or hardware virtualization and emulation experience is preferred.

• Infrastructure-as-code experience with CDK or CloudFormation is preferred.

• Experience building compute-fleet provisioning or orchestration systems is preferred.

• Docker or containerization experience is preferred.

• Availability and reliability engineering experience is preferred.

Eligibility

• Due to export-control laws, candidates must be U.S. citizens or nationals, permanent residents, refugees, or individuals granted asylum in the United States.

Compensation

• The base salary range in Redmond, Washington is $168,100 to $227,400 annually.

• Total compensation may include sign-on payments, restricted stock units, and benefits.