# Software Dev Engineer, Amazon Leo Networking, Amazon Leo - Payload Dataplane Team

Amazon Leo is Amazon’s low Earth orbit satellite network. Our mission is to deliver fast, reliable internet connectivity to customers beyond the reach of existing networks. From individual households to schools, hospitals, businesses, and government agencies, Amazon Leo will serve people and organizations operating in locations without reliable connectivity. 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 * Take responsibility for designing and delivering a modern, flexible, high throughput, low latency data distribution network protocol architecture spanning space and ground segments. * Lead and implement custom routing and L2/L3 control and data distribution protocols that incorporate mission critical network security, quality of service and dynamic communications infrastructures for best-in-class network services that delight our customers. * Develop flexible and cost-effective inter-networking solutions in support of connecting and peering with oth

- **Id**: 4150447
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/amazon-software-dev-engineer-amazon-leo-networking-amazon-leo-payload-dataplane-team>
- **Role**: Backend
- **Role family**: Backend
- **Seniority**: middle
- **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**: 3
- **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**: 4982
- **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**: 165200
- **Max**: 223600
- **Currency**: USD
- **Period**: year
- **Usd annual**: 223600

## Technologies

- **C#** — Optional: no
- **C++** — Optional: no
- **Java** — Optional: no
- **Perl** — Optional: no

## Trust

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

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 3
- **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**: 2026-11-12T10:44:10Z

## Pay

- **Stated usd annual**: 223600
- **Is top pay**: yes

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