Systems Development Engineer

Amazon Inc

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Work type
On-site
Location
Redmond, WA
Salary
$129,200–$174,800 / yr
Posted
28 days ago
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This role pays less than 78% of similar roles. Most pay $160,000–$185,025 — the blue band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $152k versus about $173k 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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TL;DR · Systems Development Engineer

The Systems Development Engineer, Amazon Leo OISL joins the Network Operations team to support the optical inter-satellite link network. In this individual contributor role, you will build and operate the tooling, automation, and monitoring systems required to manage thousands of laser communication links in a low Earth orbit satellite constellation. Your daily responsibilities include developing scalable services for fault detection, building data pipelines for KPI tracking, and creating observability platforms with dashboards and alerting. You will use Python, Spark SQL, and cloud services to automate operational workflows and incident response. You must also collaborate with hardware and software teams to investigate complex link failures and improve reliability. The work involves solving technical challenges related to real-time monitoring and proactive issue identification for distributed satellite systems.

What you'll do

  • Build scalable services to automate monitoring, fault detection, and ticketing for the optical inter-satellite link network.
  • Develop data pipelines for KPI tracking, anomaly detection, and proactive issue identification.
  • Build observability platforms including dashboards, alerting, and real-time monitoring at scale.
  • Apply ML/AI for fault correlation, root cause analysis, and predictive failure detection.
  • Participate in the NetOps on-call program by contributing to escalation workflows, runbooks, and incident response.
  • Perform hands-on development of tools and automation using Python, Spark SQL, and cloud services.
  • Design testing strategies for distributed satellite network systems and author technical specifications.
  • Investigate complex link failures and constellation-level fault patterns with hardware and software teams.

What we're looking for

  • Must be a U.S. citizen, national, permanent resident, or lawfully admitted as a refugee or granted asylum.
  • 3+ years of experience in the aerospace industry or networking infrastructure.
  • Experience in automating, deploying, and supporting large-scale infrastructure.
  • Experience programming with at least one modern language such as Python, Ruby, Golang, Java, C++, C#, or Rust.
  • Experience with Linux/Unix.
  • Experience with CI/CD pipelines build processes.
  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Electronics & Communication, Aerospace Engineering, or a related field (preferred).
  • Export control laws and regulations, candidates.

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