Software Development Manager, Leo Flight Software Team at Amazon
Redmond, WA
$184,900–$250,200from the description
Jul 14, 2026
Redmond, WA
Jul 21, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A people-management role leading a team of embedded engineers who build and operate a virtual satellite simulation platform on EC2 bare-metal infrastructure using KVM/QEMU. Day-to-day work spans VM lifecycle management, subsystem provisioning, custom AMI pipelines, and scaling the platform to thousands of concurrent virtual entities. Suited to engineering managers with a background in embedded Linux, virtualization, and distributed cloud systems.
Senior level · 5+ years · Bremerton-Silverdale-Port Orchard, WA · Full-time
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How this req sits in the market our data
Roughly 5 people in the Bremerton-Silverdale-Port Orchard, WA area plausibly meet what this posting asks for (computer and information systems managers). range 1–9
Applicant volume Moderate — A normal amount of company. The rare requirements below are what will separate a shortlisted application from the rest.
Most people in this occupation already list these. Still required — just not what gets you shortlisted.
What the occupation pays Median $181,873 (middle half $150,468–$244,491). This posting is about at that midpoint.
Estimated from BLS employment for this occupation and area, per-skill prevalence across our listing corpus, and published wage benchmarks — as of Jul 28, 2026. It is a model, not a headcount.
Why we read it this way (10)
The role is clearly a people-management position (5+ years managing engineers is a hard gate, with explicit responsibilities for hiring, developing, and retaining talent), making 11-3021 the primary SOC. The alt SOC 15-1252 reflects the deep hands-on embedded/systems technical scope that accompanies the management duties.
Redmond, WA is part of the Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue CBSA (42660), not the Bremerton CBSA. The posting lists 'USA, WA, Redmond' — this is Amazon's Redmond, WA satellite campus, which falls within the Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA CBSA (42660).
The degree requirement lists 'BS/MS in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or equivalent' — the 'or equivalent' language means no formal degree is strictly required, so the degree requirement is set to None.
Export control language requires U.S. citizenship, permanent residency, refugee, or asylum status — this is a work-authorization gate, not a security clearance gate, so the clearance requirement is None.
KVM and QEMU appear together as a combined virtualization stack in the required section ('KVM/QEMU'); they are listed as alternatives since the JD treats them as a paired platform rather than two independent requirements. QEMU also appears separately under Preferred for device emulation/custom plugins.
CDK and CloudFormation are listed together under infrastructure-as-code in the required section and are treated as alternatives (either satisfies the requirement).
The preferred qualifications section includes ARM64/Graviton bare-metal, QEMU device emulation, WireGuard/Transit Gateway/IPAM network virtualization, Yocto/embedded Linux, CI/CD pipelines, and Rust — all marked preferred.
Transit Gateway and IPAM appear alongside WireGuard in the preferred network virtualization bullet; WireGuard is named as the primary skill with the others as context rather than named alternatives, so they are omitted as separate skills to avoid over-extraction.
Hydra and Spock are mentioned as CI/CD/testing tools in the preferred section but are Amazon-internal tooling names with no broad industry recognition; they are subsumed under the CI/CD preferred skill rather than emitted as standalone skills.
Ignored 1 non-technology phrase(s) as skills (responsibilities/concepts, not named tools): people management.
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