Amazon

System Development Engineer III, Amazon Leo

Amazon$151K — $204K *
Telecommunications & Hardware
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 5-7 years of experience in OTA update systems, fleet management, or large-scale IoT device management
  • Proven experience with staged rollout strategies and automated release safety
  • Skill in building observability and anomaly detection for device fleets
  • Highly analytical with a focus on data-backed problem solving
  • Technical curiosity and a desire to exceed conventional performance
  • Ability to engage with and navigate ambiguous problem spaces
  • Ownership of technical vision, capable of developing and assessing solutions

Responsibilities

  • Drive OTA software updates for millions of Customer Terminals across various hardware variants
  • Collaborate with firmware, satellite networking, and operations teams to enhance update processes
  • Automate infrastructure for efficient software deployment and management
  • Define technical strategy alongside senior engineering leads
  • Analyze current workflows to pinpoint inefficiencies and propose simplifications
  • Implement metrics for performance measurement of system services
  • Innovate solutions in complex and unclear problem domains

Benefits

  • Comprehensive health insurance including medical, dental, and vision
  • 401(k) matching for retirement savings
  • Generous paid time off policy
  • Parental leave for new parents
  • Support for adoption and surrogacy reimbursement
  • Mental health support and counseling services
  • Flexible spending accounts for health-related expenses
Full Job Description
CT OTA Rolling out team is looking for a Senior SDE to drive the Over-The-Air (OTA) software updates to millions of Customer Terminals (CTs) across multiple hardware variants in the field. You'll own the systems that ensure every CT from factory-fresh to years-deployed can be safely, reliably, and rapidly updated at massive scale.

This is a high-impact role at the intersection of distributed systems, embedded software delivery, and fleet management. You'll work closely with firmware, satellite networking, and operations teams to automate the process and the infrastructure that keeps our constellation's ground segment current and healthy.

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 successful engineer in this role is :

- Have experience with OTA update systems, fleet management platforms, or large-scale device management (IoT, mobile, embedded, or similar)

- Have experience with staged/progressive rollout strategies and automated release safety mechanisms

- Have experience building observability and anomaly detection for device fleets

- Highly analytical: You solve problems in ways that can be backed up with verifiable data. You focus on driving processes, tools, and statistical methods which support rational decision-making.

- Technically aware: You aren't satisfied by performing 'as expected' and push the limits past conventional boundaries. Your dial goes to '11'.

- You're ambitious, yet humble: You recognize that there's always opportunity for improvement and use introspection and feedback from teammates and peers to raise the bar for your team.

- Engaged by ambiguity: You're able to explore new problem spaces with unique constraints and thus non-obvious solutions; you're quick to identify any gaps in the team and the right person to fill them to best deliver value to customers.

- Own technical vision and direction: You identify problems and develop solutions; you embrace performance metrics and measurement techniques because they help you assess how well system-related services are running.

A day in the life

A Software Development Engineer works closely with Principal Engineer, Sr. Principal Engineer to deal with ambiguity and define technical strategy. The engineer will also work with the release teams to deeply understand the current workflow, use cases, pain points, inefficiency and come up with innovative simple solution.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

- Experience leading the design, automation, deployment, and support of large-scale infrastructure

- Experience programming with at least one modern language such as Python, Ruby, Golang, Java, C++, C#, Rust

- Experience with Linux/Unix

- Experience with CI/CD pipelines build processes

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

- Experience with distributed systems at scale

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 - 151,200.00 - 204,600.00 USD annually

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Amazon Careers

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