Systems Development Engineer - Ground Infrastructure, Amazon Leo
Amazon · Bellevue, WA · Software Development
About this role
Amazon is hiring a mid-level Systems Engineer in the operations function based in Bellevue, WA. The posting calls out experience with Python, Java, Go, Rust. Compensation is listed at $129,200–$174,800 per year.
- Role
- Systems Engineer
- Function
- operations
- Level
- mid
- Track
- Individual contributor
- Employment
- Full-time
- Location
- Bellevue, WA
- Department
- Software Development
- Posted
- Apr 30, 2026
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Job description
from Amazon careersAmazon Leo is Amazon’s low Earth orbit satellite broadband network. Its mission is to deliver fast, reliable internet to customers and communities around the world, and we’ve designed the system with the capacity, flexibility, and performance to serve a wide range of customers, from individual households to schools, hospitals, businesses, government agencies, and other organizations operating in locations without reliable connectivity. As a System Development Engineer, you will build tools and processes for monitoring, operating, and scaling ground infrastructure to millions of users around the globe. Use and enhance the tools you and the team develop. Using metrics, scalability in design, and continuous improvement, you will automate repetitive processes to eliminate outages and enable high availability of the ground 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 - Continuously strive for operational excellence by seeking to automate away manual processes - Ensure that all systems are designed to be robust, scalable, maintainable and adaptable as the service scales and evolves over time - Build and…