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Amazon Leo Software Engineer Salary

Amazon Leo's 118 open roles for software engineers post a median $169k/yr, typically $169k–$227k/yr, from 115 distinct pay figures, read from its own job board every hour.

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Against other pay

Every Amazon Leo role
median $169k/yr
Amazon Leo's software engineers: level with it
Software engineers at every space company
median $168k/yr
Amazon Leo: 1% above it
Every US software developer, May 2025
median $136k/yr
Amazon Leo's postings: 24% above it
Highest posted top
$350k/yr
Director, Embedded Software Engineering, Amazon Leo

Typical pay is the 25th percentile of what roles pay (the middle of each posted range, as a year's pay: an hourly rate counts at 2,080 hours, 40 a week for 52 weeks) to the 90th-percentile posted top. Pay is compared as a year's pay: an hourly rate counts at 2,080 hours (40 a week for 52 weeks), a weekly one at 52 weeks, a monthly one at 12 months. A posting that names only a ceiling ("up to $X") is left out of the figures.

Amazon Leo software engineer pay by level

Level the title namesOpen rolesMedianTypical pay
Level II14$169k/yr$152k–$194k/yr
Level III1Too few figures
Senior39$198k/yr$198k–$262k/yr
Lead1Too few figures
Manager6$208k/yr$181k–$250k/yr
Senior manager1Too few figures
Director, head or vice president1Too few figures
Title names no level55$169k/yr$169k–$205k/yr

A level is read from the title, the first that applies from an internship to a director (the reading of our research on career levels and pay). A figure needs three distinct posted rates.

Where Amazon Leo hires software engineers

  • Redmond, WA89 roles, median $169k/yr
  • Northridge, CA6 roles, median $183k/yr
  • San Diego, CA6 roles, median $186k/yr
  • Bellevue, WA5 roles, median $169k/yr
  • Sunnyvale, CA5 roles, median $227k/yr
  • Austin, TX2 roles
  • Several or unnamed places2 roles
  • Arlington, VA1 role
  • Everett, WA1 role

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Updated 31 Oct 2026, 00:03 UTC

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Questions about Amazon Leo pay for software engineers

How much does Amazon Leo pay software engineers?

Amazon Leo's open roles for software engineers post a median $169k/yr, typically $169k–$227k/yr, from 115 distinct pay figures in 115 of its 118 postings. Typical pay here is the 25th percentile of what roles pay (the middle of each posted range, as a year's pay: an hourly rate counts at 2,080 hours, 40 a week for 52 weeks) to the 90th-percentile posted top. The highest posted top is $350k/yr, for Director, Embedded Software Engineering, Amazon Leo.

What does Amazon Leo pay software engineers at each level?

By the level each title names: level II: a median $169k/yr (14 roles); senior: a median $198k/yr (39 roles); manager: a median $208k/yr (6 roles). A level is read from the title ("Engineer II", "Senior", "Lead"); titles that name none are left out of this answer.

Does Amazon Leo pay software engineers more than other space companies?

Amazon Leo's median, $169k/yr, is 1% above the $168k/yr median of the 1,711 open roles for software engineers at every space company we read (Amazon Leo's among them).

Do software engineers earn more than other roles at Amazon Leo?

Amazon Leo's roles for software engineers post a median $169k/yr, level with the $169k/yr median of all its open roles that state pay (Amazon Leo salaries compares every kind of work).

How does Amazon Leo's pay for software engineers compare with the national wage?

The Bureau of Labor Statistics puts the national median wage of software developers at $136k/yr (May 2025); Amazon Leo's posted median, $169k/yr, is 24% above it. A posting states what a new hire is offered, the national figure what everyone in the occupation earns, so the two measure different people. Source: BLS wage estimates by state (OEWS, May 2025), read through O*NET OnLine, CC BY 4.0.

Where does Amazon Leo hire software engineers?

Its open roles for software engineers are in Redmond, WA (89), Northridge, CA (6), San Diego, CA (6), Bellevue, WA (5) and Sunnyvale, CA (5). By place, they post a median of $169k/yr in Redmond, WA, $183k/yr in Northridge, CA and $186k/yr in San Diego, CA.