Software I&T Engineer, Amazon Leo for Government

About Amazon Leo for Government

Amazon Leo is an initiative within Amazon that aims to revolutionize global connectivity through the development of a state-of-the-art Low Earth Orbit (LEO) interconnected satellite communication constellation. The Amazon Leo for Government (ALG) team develops secure, mission-critical capabilities for US Government customers.

This position requires that the candidate selected be a U.S. Citizen.

What you'll do

• Own the design, development, and long-term health of test automation frameworks, orchestration platforms, and CI/CD-integrated tooling consumed by I&T engineers and subsystem teams in hardware-in-the-loop (HIL) and system lab environments
• Architect, design, and validate software tooling — including test algorithms, scripts, calibration routines, and data visualization — required for verification and validation of complex hardware systems
• Define and drive tooling best practices across the lab engineering organization, establishing patterns for automation, observability, and infrastructure-as-code
• Analyze test data and engage cross-functionally with teammates, partners, suppliers, and customers to evaluate product performance and provide proactive feedback on potential improvements
• Prepare reports documenting test results, test coverage, performance metrics, and other KPIs; communicate issues effectively with developers and managers
• Manage and drive to closure test anomalies, defects, and bugs; debug, root-cause, and make continuous improvements to control systems in a high-rate production environment
• Operate independently to identify gaps in test infrastructure, propose solutions, and drive implementation with minimal direction
• Mentor junior engineers on software development practices, code quality, and test automation design patterns
• Collaborate with systems engineers, hardware teams, and external partners to ensure tooling supports all phases of integration, test, verification, and validation

Required qualifications

• 3+ years of non-internship professional software development experience
• 2+ years of non-internship design or architecture (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
• 1+ years of software development engineer or related occupational experience
• 1+ years of designing and developing large-scale, multi-tiered, multi-threaded, embedded or distributed software applications using: C#, C++, Java, or Perl
• 1+ years of Object Oriented Design experience
• Bachelor's degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related field
• Experience programming with at least one software programming language

Preferred qualifications

• 3+ years of full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations experience
• Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent