Space SDN Engineer: Global Satellite Network Architect

Amazon Inc.; Redmond; On-site; AUD 205,000 - 277,000; Full time

Job summary

Amazon LEO seeks engineers to design and operate a massive satellite-terrestrial network, building scalable, low-latency control planes and software for on-orbit and ground-based systems.

You will push forward workflows for on-orbit payload orchestration, ensure high availability of control planes, and automate software development and deployment processes. This role sits at the intersection of space and software engineering, shaping global connectivity.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of non-internship professional software development experience.
• 2+ years of non-internship design or architecture experience of new and existing systems.
• Experience programming with at least one software programming language.

Responsibilities

• Take responsibility for designing and delivering a modern, flexible, scalable, high throughput, low latency network architecture
• Implement workflows to orchestrate on orbit payload activities
• Implement highly-available software that will drive networking control plane operation on physical and virtual nodes
• Define and automate processes used for software development, implementation, testing, and maintenance
• Provide operational excellence for control plane services, to including enabling tools and definition/refinement of operational processes
• Diagnose routing and forwarding issues across the control plane, data plane, and physical topology.
• Integrate telemetry, topology, link-state, and network-condition data into route computation and control systems.
• Develop routing behavior for topology transitions, link changes, node movement, degraded links, and failures.

Skills

Software development

Systems design

Networking

Programming languages

Education

Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent

Job description

Amazon LEO seeks engineers to design and operate a massive satellite-terrestrial network, building scalable, low-latency control planes and software for on-orbit and ground-based systems.

You will push forward workflows for on-orbit payload orchestration, ensure high availability of control planes, and automate software development and deployment processes. This role sits at the intersection of space and software engineering, shaping global connectivity.