Position Details

Salary $110K – $220K USD / year

Type Full-Time

Experience lead

Exp. Years 8+ years

Education Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent

Category Software Engineering

About this role

Senior Software Engineer leading the development of the operational backbone for Amazon LEO's laser communication network, architecting multi-layered services to process telemetry, analyze topology, and correlate data to identify faults, with ML/AI augmentation and a focus on scalable, reliable software.

Key Responsibilities

Lead end-to-end automation initiatives for network operations
Collaborate with cross-functional teams to analyze architecture and requirements
Design and implement AI/ML solutions utilizing AWS services
Drive data-driven KPI systems and dashboards
Mentor engineers and manage onboarding

Technical Overview

Distributed systems with full-stack capabilities; cloud-first architecture across Azure, GCP, and AWS; telemetry-enabled data pipelines; AI/ML-driven anomaly detection; IaC (Terraform) and CI/CD to enable rapid, reliable deployment.

Ideal Candidate

The ideal candidate is a senior software engineer with 8+ years of distributed systems experience, strong cloud expertise across Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud Platform (and AWS), and full-stack capabilities (Java/JS/TS with React/Angular). Demonstrated leadership and mentoring ability is essential to drive complex, high-ownership projects.

Must-Have Skills

8+ years of non-internship professional software development experience6+ years of programming with at least one software programming language6+ years of leading design or architecture of new and existing systemsExperience as a mentortech lead or leading an engineering team6+ years of designing and developing large-scale distributed software applicationsExperience with AWS services such as EC2S3SQSSNSLambdaKafkaDynamoDB

Nice-to-Have Skills

8+ years of full software development life cycleBachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent

Tools & Platforms

JavaJavaScriptTypeScriptReactAngularPythonMicrosoft AzureGoogle Cloud PlatformAmazon Web ServicesTerraformKubernetesCI/CD

Required Skills

Distributed systemssoftware engineeringJavaJavaScriptTypeScriptReactAngularPythonMicrosoft AzureGoogle Cloud PlatformAmazon Web ServicesCI/CDInfrastructure as CodeTerraformKubernetesAWS services (EC2S3SQSSNSLambdaKafkaDynamoDB)event-driven systemstelemetrydata pipelinesreal-time monitoringfault detectionUI/UX

Hard Skills

JavaJavaScriptTypeScriptReactAngularPythonMicrosoft AzureGoogle Cloud PlatformAWS services (EC2S3SQSSNSLambdaKafkaDynamoDB)Event-driven systemsDistributed systemsInfrastructure as CodeCI/CDTerraformKubernetesDocker

Soft Skills

leadershipmentoringteam collaborationcommunicationproblem-solvingattention to detail

Industry & Role

Industry Retail

Job Function Lead design, development, and delivery of scalable software powering space network operations and telemetry-driven fault resolution

Role Subtype Full Stack Engineer

Tech Domains Java, JavaScript, TypeScript, React, Angular, Python, Amazon Web Services, Infrastructure as Code, Terraform, Kubernetes

Keywords for Your Resume

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Deal Breakers

Lack of 8+ years of non-internship software experience, Lack of distributed systems architecture experience, No cloud platform experience (Azure, GCP, AWS)

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