Software Development Engineer, Leo Data Science Platform

Amazon Leo is Amazon's low Earth orbit satellite network. Our mission is to

deliver fast, reliable internet connectivity to customers beyond the reach of

existing networks. From individual households to schools, hospitals, businesses,

and government agencies, Amazon Leo will serve people and organizations

operating in locations without reliable connectivity.

We are looking for a Software Development Engineer to build and scale the

services/cloud layer of VirtSat, Leo's virtual satellite simulation platform.

VirtSat lets developers and automated pipelines across Leo create, provision,

and test virtual satellites, ground gateways, customer terminals, and TT&C

antennas on demand — replacing scarce physical hardware benches with cloud

infrastructure that scales with the constellation.

You will own the simulation control plane: the APIs, orchestration workflows,

and health systems that turn a single request into a fully provisioned,

flight-software-running virtual satellite. Every Leo satellite software release

is validated on this platform before launch, which means the availability and

latency of the services you own directly set the pace at which the constellation

ships software.

This is a distributed systems role on a platform with an unusual property: your

dependencies are physical. You will build APIs whose correctness depends on

certificate provisioning, hardware emulation, radio link simulation, and the

flight software itself — and you will make that stack behave like a reliable,

self-service service.

Export Control Requirement: Due to applicable export control laws and

regulations, candidates must be a U.S. citizen or national, U.S. permanent

resident (i.e., current Green Card holder), or lawfully admitted into the U.S.

as a refugee or granted asylum.

Key job responsibilities

* Own the entity lifecycle APIs — create, provision, power-on, and tear down

virtual satellites, gateways, customer terminals, and antennas — and drive them

to and past a 99.9% availability bar

* Design and evolve the orchestration layer: long-running state machines that

coordinate provisioning across distributed dependencies where any step can fail

on physics rather than code, and where partial failure must be recoverable

rather than restart-from-scratch

* Own the service-side plugin framework — the published contract, registration,

delegation, and result aggregation that lets subsystem owner teams define their

own initialization, health validation, and provisioning logic without our team

in the loop

* Build the health check aggregation API: a single call that returns

per-subsystem health with every failure attributed to the team that owns it, so

customers self-diagnose instead of paging an on-call

* Build and own continuous canaries that validate the full stack against a

pre-production constellation on a fixed schedule, wired so that a failure cuts a

ticket and pages automatically with no human in the detection path

* Integrate with certificate, identity, and entity-registry services — device

identity generation at constellation scale, certificate lifecycle, namespace

registration, and the calibration data that makes a virtual entity behave like

its physical twin

* Drive down provisioning latency, currently measured in minutes at p90, through

parallelization, image pre-baking, and eliminating serialized dependencies

* Own observability end to end — structured logging, embedded metrics,

distributed tracing, and log centralization — with the specific goal that a

customer can root-cause a failed run from logs alone without recreating it

* Scale the platform for concurrent multi-tenant use: capacity management across

bare-metal pools, fleet-wide provisioning throughput, and cost per simulated

entity

* Partner closely with the virtualization and emulation team that owns the host

layer, with subsystem owner teams who build against your plugin contract, and

with the test frameworks and release pipelines that are your highest-volume

customers

A day in the life

This role is for a Software Development Engineer who will build new cloud

services and APIs that manage customer devices such as applying software

updates, telemetry, and self-healing. You will be building low-latency, highly

scalable architecture that are critical to getting high quality internet service

to customers.

About the team

You will join the VirtSat Platform team within Leo Developer Experience. The

team owns VirtSat end to end — the simulation service control plane, the

virtualization host layer, fidelity of the emulated subsystems, and adoption

across Leo.

This role sits on the services side of that boundary. You will own the

simulation service: its public APIs, its provisioning workflows, its plugin

framework, its canaries and health checks, and its availability and latency

posture. A sibling role owns the bare-metal virtualization layer beneath you;

you own the contract between them. Basic

Qualifications

• - 3+ years of
• non-internship professional software development experience
• - Experience designing, building, operating, and managing large-scale
• distributed systems or web services
• - Knowledge of at least one programming language such as Java, C#, JavaScript,
• Python, Ruby or Perl
• - Experience designing and evolving APIs, including backward compatibility and
• versioning
• - Working knowledge of AWS compute, orchestration, and observability services
• - BS in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or equivalent practical
• experience

Preferred Qualifications

• - Experience with workflow orchestration
• for long-running, failure-prone processes — AWS Step Functions, Temporal,
• Airflow, or similar — including checkpointing and resume semantics
• - Experience operating a service to a defined availability target: canaries,
• alarming, on-call, error budgets, and driving availability upward through
• measurement rather than heroics
• - Experience with plugin, extension, or federated-ownership architectures where
• teams outside your own contribute code behind a contract you publish and version
• - Experience with EC2 bare-metal, virtualization, or hardware-in-the-loop test
• infrastructure
• - Familiarity with PKI, certificate provisioning, or secure device identity at
• fleet scale
• - Experience with observability at scale — structured logging, metric
• cardinality management, distributed tracing
• - Familiarity with satellite systems, robotics, industrial control, or other
• cyber-physical test environments
• - Experience with infrastructure as code and CI/CD for service deployment
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• compensation will be determined based on factors including experience,
• qualifications, and location. Amazon also offers comprehensive benefits
• including health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life &
• AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans, EAP, Mental Health
• Support, Medical Advice Line, Flexible Spending Accounts, Adoption and Surrogacy
• Reimbursement coverage), 401(k) matching, paid time off, and parental leave.
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• USA, WA, Redmond - 143,700.00 - 194,400.00 USD annually