Software Development Engineer , Amazon Leo , Amazon Leo Commerce

Amazon is hiring a Software Development Engineer , Amazon Leo , Amazon Leo Commerce. It pays $144k-$194k a year and Level rates it ; you can apply on Amazon.

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Design and implement commerce applications for Amazon's Low Earth Orbit satellite network while leveraging generative AI development workflows.

AWSGenerative AIAI agents

software-developmentfull-stackcommerce-applicationsdistributed-systems

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
Design and implement commerce applications and services that power the end-to-end customer experience for Amazon's satellite connectivity offering.
Collaborate with product managers, UX designers, marketing, and backend service teams to translate customer and business needs into accessible, scalable solutions that work across devices and browsers.
Leverage generative AI tools and agentic development workflows to accelerate feature delivery, and identify opportunities to improve infrastructure using AWS native services.
Participate actively in code reviews, providing constructive feedback to teammates while coaching others on best practices, design patterns, and maintainable coding standards.
Write clear documentation for your team's software, train new team members on how it is constructed and operated, and drive root-cause resolution for operational issues.

A day in the life
You might start your morning reviewing a pull request from a teammate, suggesting improvements to a mobile app design pattern and performance. After standup, you pick up a new feature that doesn't have a clear precedent yet, sketching out an approach with your product manager before writing code. In the afternoon, you pair with a designer to refine interaction details for an upcoming launch, then dig into an operational metric that looks off, tracing it to a rendering edge case you fix before it reaches customers.

About the team
We are part of the Amazon Leo Commerce engineering organization, building the e-commerce experience for a global satellite connectivity customer base. Our team works closely with backend commerce services, product, marketing, and business partners to launch new experiences from scratch. We are scaling the team and investing in AI-based development and operational workflows to meet the growing needs of our customers. If you are looking for a place where you can grow your expertise by tackling new problems regularly alongside an inclusive group of engineers, we would be glad to have you.

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
- 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, tools, systems, and services using: C#, C++, Java, or Perl experience
- 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

Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status.

Our inclusive culture empowers Amazonians to deliver the best results for our customers. If you have a disability and need a workplace accommodation or adjustment during the application and hiring process, including support for the interview or onboarding process, please visit https://amazon.jobs/content/en/how-we-hire/accommodations for more information. If the country/region you’re applying in isn’t listed, please contact your Recruiting Partner.

The base salary range for this position is listed below. Your Amazon package will include sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience, qualifications, and location. Amazon also offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans, EAP, Mental Health Support, Medical Advice Line, Flexible Spending Accounts, Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage), 401(k) matching, paid time off, and parental leave. Learn more about our benefits at https://amazon.jobs/en/benefits.

USA, WA, Redmond - 143,700.00 - 194,400.00 USD annually

How we rate this

Software Development Engineer , Amazon Leo , Amazon Leo Commerce at Amazon rates 40 out of 100 for how much of the daily work is AI. That makes it Uses AI (AI Level 2 of 4). The level is about AI in the job, not seniority.

Classification

Uses AI. An ordinary role that requires AI tools.

●●●● Builds AI80 to 100
●●●○ Works on AI60 to 79
●●○○ Uses AI40 to 59
●○○○ Little AI0 to 39

Levels come from how often the tools, models and workflows of the role are named in the posting itself. Read the description and count the AI tools, models and workflows it names.

Key facts

Software Development Engineer , Amazon Leo , Amazon Leo Commerce is an open job at Amazon.
Level rates this role AI Level 2 of 4: Uses AI.
The listed salary is $144k-$194k a year.
The role is based in US, WA, Redmond.
The job was posted on September 10, 2026.
Seniority: mid.
Applications are handled by Amazon. Apply on Amazon

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Skills and AI tools this role asks for

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Pay

This job starts at: $144k
Typical software engineer job: $168k

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