mid Software Engineer ic 3+ yrs · Posted Feb 23, 2026
$165,200 – $223,600
USD per year

About this role

Amazon is hiring a mid-level Software Engineer based in Sunnyvale, CA. The posting calls out experience with C, Networking, Cloud Computing and roughly 3+ years of relevant work. Compensation is listed at $165,200–$223,600 per year.

Role
Software Engineer
Function
software engineering
Level
mid
Track
Individual contributor
Employment
Full-time
Location
Sunnyvale, CA
Experience
3+ years
Visa
Not sponsored
Department
Software Development
Posted
Feb 23, 2026
AI Summary
Design and implement the network control plane for Amazon's LEO satellite constellation, handling routing, traffic engineering, and SDN technologies. Develop highly-available software in C and Rust for network nodes. Requires 3+ years software development and 2+ years design/architecture experience.

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Job description

from Amazon careers

Amazon Leo is an initiative to launch a constellation of Low Earth Orbit satellites that will provide low-latency, high-speed broadband connectivity to unserved and underserved communities around the world. Key job responsibilities Have you wanted an opportunity to develop the core wireless and networking for an advanced global telecom service spanning both space and terrestrial networks? Have you wondered what it takes to solve a multi-dimentional routing problem at global scale? Amazon Leo's SDN team will design, implement and operate Leo's network control plane. This service will enable a high throughput telecom service using a system of LEO satellites, customer terminals, gateways, cloud services, and terrestrial network infrastructure that connect into public and private networks. For this role, you will: - Take responsibility for designing and delivering a modern, flexible, scalable, high throughput, low latency network architecture - Implement Routing and Forwarding, Traffic Engineering, and SDN technologies to deliver the best-in-class broadband network services for our customers - Implement highly-available software that will drive networking control plane operation on physical and remote nodes - Define and automate processes used for software development, implementation, testing, and maintenance - Provide operational excellence for control plane services, to including enabling tools and definition/refinement…

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