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You’ll build systems using the latest AWS technologies, leveraging best-in-industry software engineering practices.\nExport Control Requirement:\nDue 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.\nKey job responsibilities\n- Take responsibility for designing and delivering modern, flexible, scalable solutions to complex optimization problems for operating and planning satellite constellations\n- Work with our peer teams and customers to design suitable software systems to fulfill the mission needs.\n- Write code for production cloud native software systems in Java.\n- Utilize AWS and other Amazon technologies to build high-available software services.\n- Help on-board and mentor new team members.\n- Lead technical roadmap definition efforts and decide what software services to build.\n- Define and automate processes used for software development, implementation, testing, and maintenance\n- Provide operational excellence and define/refine operational processes\nA day in the life\nThis role is for a Software Development Engineer who will build new cloud services and APIs that facilitates and orchestrates simulation/emulation of software on Leo devices such as satellites, ground gateways, and customer terminals. 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This is being done to power internal testing of software within Amazon Leo.\nBasic qualifications\n- 3+ years of non-internship professional software development experience\n- 2+ years of non-internship design or architecture (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience\n- 1+ years of software development engineer or related occupational experience\n- 1+ years of designing and developing large-scale, multi-tiered, multi-threaded, embedded or distributed software applications, tools, systems, and services using: C#, C++, Java, or Perl experience\n- 1+ years of Object Oriented Design experience\n- Bachelor's degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related field\n- Experience programming with at least one software programming language\nPreferred qualifications\n- Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent\n- 3+ years of full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations experience\nAmazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status.\nOur inclusive culture empowers Amazonians to deliver the best results for our customers. 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