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Senior Software Development Engineer, Amazon Leo

Amazon

Amazon

Software Engineering
Sunnyvale, CA, USA
Posted on Mar 18, 2026

Description

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 highly experienced technical leader to design and develop Leo’s network OS. The candidate needs to have strong experience with L2 and L3 routing protocols, interactions with FPGA forwarding planes, working on dataplane implementations and troubleshooting across both embedded and linux netdev and kernel systems
The candidate needs to be comfortable working with EE teams and programmable network hardware and able to lead the definition, implementation, and troubleshooting of proprietary network protocols and behaviors


Key job responsibilities
* Take responsibility for designing and delivering a modern, flexible, high throughput, low latency data distribution network protocol architecture spanning space and ground segments.
* Lead and implement custom routing and L2/L3 control data distribution protocols that incorporate mission critical network security, quality of service and dynamic communications infrastructures for best-in-class network services that delight our customers.
* Develop flexible and cost-effective inter-networking solutions in support of connecting and peering with other public and private networks.