Amazon Leo is Amazon’s Low Earth Orbit satellite network, with a mission 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 connect people and organizations operating in locations without reliable connectivity.
The Leo Network Observability, Visibility & Analytics team builds the systems that provide deep, end-to-end insight into the health, performance, and reliability of this global telecom network. Our systems span the full Leo service—from satellites and customer terminals to ground gateways, cloud services, and terrestrial network infrastructure—and enable engineers to understand network behavior, rapidly detect failures, and diagnose complex issues across space and ground infrastructure.
We are looking for a talented Software Development Engineer II to design, build, and operate network observability and analytics solutions for an advanced global telecommunications service spanning both space and terrestrial networks.
As a software engineer on this team, you will build high-scale systems that transform telemetry, network events, traces, and operational signals into actionable visibility. You will work across distributed systems, networking, data pipelines, real-time analytics, and visualization to answer critical questions such as: Is the network healthy? Where is a failure occurring? What is its customer impact? And how quickly can we identify and resolve it?
You will collaborate closely with network engineers, scientists, and software engineers to develop novel mechanisms for end-to-end network visibility and diagnostics. Your work will help establish the observability foundations required to operate a highly distributed telecom network where failures can span satellites, beams, customer terminals, gateways, cloud services, and terrestrial infrastructure.
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
A day in the life
You will work on problems at the intersection of distributed systems, networking, telemetry, and large-scale analytics. One day you might design a streaming architecture capable of processing telemetry from millions of network components; another day you might develop a mechanism to identify where packet loss occurred across a multi-hop satellite and terrestrial path.
You will work with network engineers and scientists to understand how Leo’s network behaves, develop new ways to make that behavior observable, and turn large volumes of operational data into actionable information. You will also own services in production and work through real operational challenges as the network scales.
This role provides opportunities to work across the stack—from telemetry collection on network infrastructure and embedded systems, through distributed data pipelines and analytics, to the APIs and visualization tools used by engineers operating the Leo network.
About the team
The Leo Network Observability, Visibility & Analytics team is responsible for making a highly distributed global telecom network understandable and operable at scale.
We build the visibility layer that connects network signals across satellites, customer terminals, gateways, cloud services, and terrestrial infrastructure. Our systems help transform individual telemetry signals into an end-to-end view of network health, enabling faster detection, diagnosis, and resolution of issues.
The problems we solve are inherently distributed and require us to combine software engineering with networking and data science. We are building new capabilities rather than simply applying existing observability patterns to a conventional cloud service.
If you enjoy solving ambiguous problems, designing distributed systems at significant scale, and building software that provides visibility into complex networks, this team offers an opportunity to work on foundational systems for Amazon Leo.
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The base salary range for this position is listed below. Your Amazon package will include sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final 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. Learn more about our benefits at https://amazon.jobs/en/benefits.
USA, WA, Redmond - 143,700.00 - 194,400.00 USD annually
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