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Senior Software Development Engineer, Fauna

Amazon

Location

New York, NY

Type

Full-time

Posted

9/22/2026

Compensation

$184,900 - $250,200 per year

Undergraduate with 5+ Years of Experience
H-1B FY202699.1% approval+9% YoY
👑 Elite sponsor

Job description

Fauna Robotics is seeking a Senior Software Development Engineer to develop cloud services that connect robots to customer experiences and internal operations. The team focuses on creating safe and delightful robots for everyday life, emphasizing the integration of hardware and software systems. The ideal candidate will have experience in building distributed systems and will work collaboratively across various teams. This role involves hands-on design and implementation while making architectural tradeoffs.

Requirements

  • 5+ years of non-internship professional software development experience
  • 5+ years of programming experience with at least one software programming language
  • 5+ years of experience leading design or architecture of new and existing systems
  • Experience as a mentor, tech lead, or leading an engineering team
  • Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent
  • Experience working in a cloud-based development and production environment such as AWS
  • Experience owning a service end to end, including design, implementation, deployment, monitoring, and incident response
  • Experience building backends for physical devices with connectivity challenges
  • Experience with device or fleet connectivity at scale, such as MQTT or AWS IoT Core
  • Experience with real-time telemetry ingestion and streaming technologies
  • Experience with over-the-air update delivery and staged fleet rollouts
  • Experience securing connected devices and managing data privacy
  • Experience with infrastructure as code and operational tooling

Responsibilities

  • Build and own the cloud services that connect a growing fleet of robots to customer experiences and internal operations
  • Build operational telemetry ingestion pipelines that process high-frequency robot signals
  • Select technologies where the stack is undefined and document the decisions
  • Join the on-call rotation for the services you own and drive incident response
  • Work with science, engineering, and product teams to define requirements and operationalize new workflows

Benefits

  • Employees at Amazon are often offered comprehensive health benefits—including multiple medical plan options (no pre-existing condition exclusions, 100% covered in-network preventive care), dental and vision plans, a 24/7 medical advice line from day one, expert second-opinion services, and broad mental-health support with several free counseling sessions (including pediatric). Financial wellness typically includes a 401(k) with company match (up to 2%), Restricted Stock Units (equity), FSAs, an emergency savings program, product and partner discounts, and even college-savings and home-purchase programs. Overall, the package is designed to support employees and their families’ health, finances, and day-to-day life.

H-1B filing history

Public USCIS petition and DOL LCA counts · latest USCIS FY2026, LCA FY2026

Filing entity: Amazon Com Services Llc

As of Aug 23, 2026

Initial approvals

3,290

FY2026

Approval rate

99.1%

FY2026

LCA certified

32,937

FY2026

Entry-level share

10.6%

FY2026

Initial approvals YoY

+9%

Trend

LCA certified YoY

-44%

Trend

Initial approvals by fiscal year

Approval rate by fiscal year

Continuing vs initial approvals

LCA certified positions by quarter

LCA certified positions by fiscal year

Based on public USCIS and DOL filings; not a sponsorship guarantee.

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