Sr. Software Development Engineer, OISL at Amazon
Redmond, WA
$168,100–$227,400from the description
Jul 14, 2026
Redmond, WA
Jul 21, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A senior engineering role focused on building large-scale data pipelines and AI-driven automation for a low Earth orbit satellite broadband network's optical inter-satellite link systems. The work spans designing LLM-powered agentic systems, streaming and batch data infrastructure using tools like Kafka, Flink, and AWS-native services, and embedding security practices throughout. The role also carries technical leadership responsibilities including mentoring engineers and shaping cross-team architecture decisions.
Senior level · 5+ years · Bremerton-Silverdale-Port Orchard, WA · Bachelor's required · Full-time
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How this req sits in the market our data
Roughly 9 people in the Bremerton-Silverdale-Port Orchard, WA area plausibly meet what this posting asks for (software developers). range 6–15
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 $149,415 (middle half $105,490–$174,157). 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 (8)
The posting is located in Redmond, WA. The closest CBSA is Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA (42660), as Redmond is a city within that metro area — not the Bremerton CBSA.
The role spans data engineering, AI/LLM agentic systems, and general software development. It is classified as Software Developers (15-1252) because the primary day-to-day work is building and shipping production software systems and pipelines; Data Scientists (15-2051) is the runner-up given the significant ML/AI agentic scope.
The Basic Qualifications list specific AWS services (EC2, S3, Lambda, Step Functions, Kinesis, DynamoDB) as examples within a single requirement; these are captured under the 'AWS' skill rather than as separate entries, since the JD treats them as illustrative of a single AWS experience gate.
CI/CD and infrastructure-as-code are listed as a single combined requirement in Basic Qualifications; CDK, CloudFormation, and Terraform are named as alternatives within that gate — Terraform is used as the primary name with the others in alternatives.
The streaming technologies (Apache Flink, Kafka Streams, Kinesis Data Analytics) appear only under Preferred Qualifications, as does the LLM/agentic systems experience — despite being prominently featured in the role description narrative. Section placement governs.
Security clearance is listed under Preferred Qualifications as 'active security clearance or ability to obtain one' — this is not a hard gate, so the clearance requirement is set to None.
Export control language requires US citizenship, permanent residency, refugee, or asylum status — this is a legal work-authorization constraint, not a formal security clearance requirement.
Compensation is base salary only; the posting notes the total package also includes sign-on payments and RSUs.
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