Software Developer Engineer, Kuiper Security

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

Arlington, VA, USA | Redmond, WA, USA

Amazon Leo is Amazon’s low Earth orbit satellite broadband network. Its mission is to deliver fast, reliable internet to customers and communities around the world, and we’ve designed the system with the capacity, flexibility, and performance to serve a wide range of customers, from individual households to schools, hospitals, businesses, government agencies, and other 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.

LSA (Leo Security Assurance) encompasses key functions that support compliance, audit readiness, and operational efficiency. It ensures compliance through scalable programs, tested controls, and continuous monitoring, while embedding compliance into services. It enables successful audits by supporting audit planning, evidence management, and stakeholder engagement. Additionally, it enhances efficiency through GRC tooling, workflow automation, and scalable reporting to support ongoing assurance activities.

Our team is at the forefront of enabling security and compliance at scale across Amazon Leo. We work directly with Leo’s service teams to embed security, governance, and audit-readiness into their products and operations. As a Software Engineer on the LSA team, you will play a pivotal role in scaling Leo’s Governance, Risk, and Compliance (GRC) capabilities through tooling, automation, and data integration.
We are a multidisciplinary group of security specialists, software engineers, and program managers focused on solving complex compliance challenges. Our mission is to design and implement solutions that meet the stringent expectations of external regulators and our most security-conscious customers.

This role is open for Redmond, WA and Arlington, VA locations.


Key job responsibilities
* Design and build scalable, secure software solutions to support audit readiness, governance, and regulatory compliance at scale.
* Write high-quality, efficient, and testable code in modern object-oriented programming languages, contributing to both back-end services and full-stack solutions.
* Develop and maintain distributed systems that enable automated evidence collection, compliance data integration, and real-time compliance monitoring.
* Engineer secure data pipelines and integrations between diverse internal systems and compliance platforms, while ensuring integrity, auditability, and regulatory adherence.
* Collaborate with security, legal, and compliance stakeholders to define and implement solutions that meet evolving audit, risk, and control requirements.
* Contribute to the full software development lifecycle—including architecture, design, implementation, deployment, and operations—within a compliance automation team.
* Partner with internal platform teams to embed governance and risk management capabilities into system design and operations.
* Support the development and evolution of compliance frameworks, control mappings, and automated control testing infrastructure.
* Identify opportunities for workflow automation, control inheritance, and continuous compliance improvements to streamline assurance efforts.
* Participate in cross-functional design reviews and strategic planning to shape the future of Kuiper’s compliance automation ecosystem.

A day in the life
Why Amazon Security?
At Amazon, security is central to maintaining customer trust and delivering delightful customer experiences. Our organization is responsible for creating and maintaining a high bar for security across all of Amazon’s products and services. We offer talented security professionals the chance to accelerate their careers with opportunities to build experience in a wide variety of areas including cloud, devices, retail, entertainment, healthcare, operations, and physical stores.

About the team
Diverse Experiences
Amazon Security values diverse experiences. Even if you do not meet all of the qualifications and skills listed in the job description, we encourage candidates to apply. If your career is just starting, hasn’t followed a traditional path, or includes alternative experiences, don’t let it stop you from applying.
Why Amazon Security?
At Amazon, security is central to maintaining customer trust and delivering delightful customer experiences. Our organization is responsible for creating and maintaining a high bar for security across all of Amazon’s products and services. We offer talented security professionals the chance to accelerate their careers with opportunities to build e