Senior Software Development Engineer, Software Defined Network Control Plane

Amazon Inc

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Work type: On-site
Location: Redmond, WA
Salary: $168,100–$227,400 / yr
Posted: 5 days ago
Freshness: Confirmed live yesterday
Nearby: 99+ roles within 25 mi

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Amazon Inc. is the world''s largest e-commerce and cloud computing company, operating the Amazon marketplace, AWS cloud platform, Prime subscription services, Alexa voice AI, and logistics infrastructure. Industry: E-Commerce & Cloud Computing

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TL;DR · Senior Software Development Engineer, Software Defined Network Control Plane

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As a Senior Software Development Engineer on the Software Defined Network Control Plane team for Amazon Leo, you will lead the design and development of the network control plane that orchestrates traffic across satellites, customer terminals, gateways, and terrestrial infrastructure. You will build link planning, routing, and control plane delivery services using Rust for network nodes spanning satellite and terrestrial environments. Your daily responsibilities include developing highly available services, operational tooling, dashboards, and observability features while mentoring other engineers. You will collaborate with hardware teams, scientists, and mission operations to ensure clean integration across the broader network. This role solves complex multi-dimensional problems in low-latency, high-speed broadband connectivity by managing the distributed systems that route traffic across a growing constellation of Low Earth Orbit satellites.

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Skills

Rust SDN Distributed Systems Software Development Life Cycle Source Control Management Observability Design Patterns Testing

What you'll do

Design and deliver scalable, high-throughput, low-latency services for the SDN control plane.
Build link planning, routing, and control plane delivery services using Rust.
Develop highly available control plane services and operational tooling for system monitoring.
Create dashboards and observability features to maintain and monitor system health.
Set technical direction and architectural conventions for the engineering team.
Drive software quality through technical design, code reviews, testing, and deployment.
Provide on-call operational support and mentor other engineers on best practices.

What we're looking for

Candidates must be a U.S. citizen, national, permanent resident, refugee, or granted asylum.
5+ years of non-internship professional software development experience.
5+ years of programming experience with at least one software programming language.
5+ years of experience leading design or architecture of new and existing systems.
Experience as a mentor, tech lead, or leading an engineering team.
5+ years of full software development life cycle experience (preferred).
Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent (preferred).
Export control laws and regulations, candidates.

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