Senior Software Development Engineer, Software Defined Network Agent

Amazon Inc

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Work type: On-site
Location: Redmond, WA
Salary: $168,100–$227,400 / yr
Posted: 10 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 Agent

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As a Sr Software Development Engineer, Software Defined Network Agent, you will join the Software Defined Networking Control Plane team to build the brain of a Low Earth Orbit satellite constellation. You will lead the design and development of embedded agents running on satellites, customer terminals, gateways, and terrestrial infrastructure to drive network plans. Your daily responsibilities include defining technical conventions, solving performance and interfacing challenges, and developing resilient software with observability features and operational tooling. You will collaborate with hardware teams, scientists, and mission operations to ensure clean control plane integration. Key requirements include over five years of professional software development experience, expertise in programming languages, and a proven track record in leading system architecture, design patterns, reliability, and scaling for distributed systems.

What does a Software Development Engineer earn in Washington?

Median $169050 from 129 postings across 6 companies.

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Skills

Software Defined Networking SDN Embedded Software Distributed Systems Observability Source Control Management Software Development Life Cycle Testing Code Review Build Processes

What you'll do

Design and deliver embedded agent components for new business needs within the Leo program.
Define technical conventions and solutions to guide the team's engineering direction.
Solve performance and interfacing challenges for multiple plan consumers.
Develop highly reliable software and operational tooling for long-term device stability.
Build observability features and dashboards to monitor and maintain system health.
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

Must be a U.S. citizen, national, permanent resident, refugee, or granted asylum due to export control laws.
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).

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