# Senior Software Engineer - Embedded Networking, Payload Network Software Team

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. In this position, you will be a valued member of payload network team designing and developing network stack (routing, forwarding, control, data and distribution planes) for an end-to-end system of satellites, interchanges, ground gateways & customer terminals. We are looking for a highly experienced technical leader to design and develop Amazon Leo’s network OS. The candidate needs to have strong experience with Layer 2/3 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, programmable network hardware and be 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

- **Id**: 4150440
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/amazon-senior-software-engineer-embedded-networking-payload-network-software-team>
- **Role**: Hardware
- **Role family**: Hardware
- **Seniority**: senior
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Sunnyvale, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 10
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: yes
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-12T08:53:42Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-12
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-12T08:53:42Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 0
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 5651
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Benefits**: Health insurance, Parental leave, Restricted stock units
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Advertising, Cloud Platforms (IaaS & PaaS), Logistics, Streaming & OTT Platforms

## Company

- **Id**: 19
- **Name**: Amazon
- **Domain**: amazon.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/amazon>
- **Size band**: 5000+
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Career site

### Truth index

- **Grade**: B
- **Score**: 78
- **Open postings**: 4525
- **Ghost share**: 0
- **Stale share**: 0.887
- **Repost share**: 0.003
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 30
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-11T05:49:22Z

## Salary

- **Min**: 193300
- **Max**: 261500
- **Currency**: USD
- **Period**: year
- **Usd annual**: 261500

## Technologies

- **Layer 2** — Optional: no
- **Linux** — Optional: no
- **C++** — Optional: yes

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 0

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 10
- **Management years min**: 5
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: yes

### Education

- **Level**: bachelor
- **Optional**: yes

## Hiring locations

- **United States** — Iso: US; Kind: country

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-12T08:53:42Z

## Visa

- Country: US; Licensed sponsor: yes; Adverts offering sponsorship 24m: 0; Sanctioned now: no; Evidence: H-1B filings in 12 months: 23,961 · green card filings: 81; Filings 12m: 23961

## Liveness

- **Score**: 86
- **Band**: hot
- **Label**: Hiring now
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.86
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 0
- **Expected fill days**: 31
- **Reasons**: conf:1, win:early, comp:brand
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-12T10:27:53Z

## Pay

- **Stated usd annual**: 261500
- **Is top pay**: yes

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