LEO Network Control Plane Engineer (C/Rust)

Amazon Inc.; Redmond; On-site; AUD 204,000 - 277,000; Full time

Job summary

Amazon Kuiper Manufacturing Enterprises LLC in Redmond, WA, is seeking a software engineer for the UMAC team to design and operate the Leo network control plane. You will contribute to routing, SDN, and high‑throughput, low‑latency networking across space and terrestrial segments.

The role focuses on building scalable software in C and Rust, defining automated processes, and delivering reliable control plane services with operational excellence in a global telecom environment.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of professional software development experience (non-internship).
• 2+ years of design or architecture experience (non-internship).

Responsibilities

• Design and deliver a scalable, high‑throughput network architecture.
• Implement Routing and Forwarding, Traffic Engineering, and SDN technologies for broadband services.
• Develop high-availability software to drive network control plane operations on physical and remote nodes.
• Define and automate processes for software development, testing, and maintenance.
• Provide operational excellence for control plane services and tooling.
• Develop routing control plane software for network nodes in C and Rust.

Skills

Software development

System design

Education

Bachelor's degree in computer science

Tools

C

Rust

Job description

Amazon Kuiper Manufacturing Enterprises LLC in Redmond, WA, is seeking a software engineer for the UMAC team to design and operate the Leo network control plane. You will contribute to routing, SDN, and high‑throughput, low‑latency networking across space and terrestrial segments.

The role focuses on building scalable software in C and Rust, defining automated processes, and delivering reliable control plane services with operational excellence in a global telecom environment.