Software Development Engineer - Embedded

Amazon Inc

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Work type: On-site
Location: Redmond, WA
Salary: $143,700–$194,400 / yr
Posted: 2 days ago
Freshness: Confirmed live yesterday
Nearby: 99+ roles within 25 mi

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Similar $180k

This role $169k

$136k most similar roles pay here $220k

This role pays less than 52% of similar roles. Most pay $154,030–$206,112 — the shaded band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $169k versus about $180k for comparable roles.

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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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Software Development Engineer - Embedded, UMAC joins the UMAC team to design, implement, and operate the network control plane for the MAC layer of a low Earth orbit satellite network. This role focuses on building high-throughput, low-latency network architectures while implementing routing, forwarding, traffic engineering, and SDN technologies. The engineer will develop highly available software to drive networking control plane operations on both physical and remote nodes. Daily responsibilities include defining and automating processes for development, testing, and maintenance while ensuring operational excellence for control plane services. The position requires developing routing control plane software specifically using C and Rust. The work involves solving complex multi-dimensional routing problems within a global telecom service that integrates satellites, customer terminals, gateways, and cloud services into public and private networks to provide reliable internet connectivity across space and terrestrial infrastructure.

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Skills

C Rust SDN Routing and Forwarding Traffic Engineering Network Architecture Cloud Services Source Control Management

What you'll do

Design and deliver a scalable, high-throughput, and low-latency network architecture.
Implement routing, forwarding, traffic engineering, and SDN technologies for broadband services.
Develop highly-available software to drive networking control plane operations on physical and remote nodes.
Write routing control plane software using C and Rust programming languages.
Define and automate processes for software development, testing, and maintenance.
Provide operational excellence by creating tools and refining processes for control plane services.
Fine-tune network performance through interaction with ground control, customer engagement, and monitoring systems.

What we're looking for

Candidates must be a U.S. citizen, national, permanent resident, or granted asylum/refugee status for export control compliance.
3+ years of non-internship professional software development experience.
2+ years of non-internship design or architecture experience focusing on patterns, reliability, and scaling.
Experience developing routing control plane software in C and Rust.
Experience implementing Routing and Forwarding, Traffic Engineering, and SDN technologies.
3+ years of full software development life cycle experience (preferred).
Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent (preferred).

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