COMPLETE Software Development Engineer, AWS Ground Station - Denver

Job Description

Are you ready to build a new AWS service that will have a historic impact to own and operate a service that connects satellites to the cloud? If so, Amazon Web Services (AWS) has an exciting opportunity for you.

AWS Ground Station has an opening for an SDE on our Control Plane. The Control Plane is a fully serverless tech stack for scheduling and orchestrating satellite communications across a global antenna network.

Come build the future with us!

Key job responsibilities
A Software Development Engineer with AWS Ground Station supports the development and delivery of key features as we innovate for our customers. On our team you will use your expertise to:

Design systems that ensure all parts of the service operate effectively with each other.

Collaborate with peers to evaluate requirements and technologies that close the gap between customer needs and service functionality.

Identify opportunities for optimization to make the service more efficient and cost effective.

Software development engineer positions require a depth and breadth of knowledge in design and development, experience with agile methodologies, proficiency in a high-level language, and experience building highly scalable systems involving distributed services and persistent storage. You will own the design of major deliverable and have opportunities to build them from scratch. This is a high visibility and fast-paced environment where you will make a direct impact on the customer experience and the bottom line of the company.

A day in the life
Each day you will interact with innovators that think big and get process out of the way of development to build and improve Control Plane. Fully leveraging AWS technologies, you'll grow a new ecosystem in the cloud that’s committed to low operational burden by designing for it. You will prioritize your activities to support product development, solve problems and blockers, and focus on the actions that are most impactful for program success. The Ground Station team puts work-life balance, personal, and professional growth as a principle, not a goal.

We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations:

Denver, CO, USA | Herndon, VA, USA

Basic 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
- Experience programming with at least one software programming language
- This position requires that the candidate selected be a US Citizen.

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

Amazon is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status. For individuals with disabilities who would like to request an accommodation, please visit https://www.amazon.jobs/en/disability/us.

Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $115,000/year in our lowest geographic market up to $223,600/year in our highest geographic market. Pay is based on a number of factors including market location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Amazon is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered, equity, sign-on payments, and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package, in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits. For more information, please visit https://www.aboutamazon.com/workplace/employee-benefits. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.