SDN Controller Engineer for Global Space Network

Amazon; Redmond (WA); On-site; USD 144,000 - 194,000; Full time

Job summary

Amazon is seeking a Software Development Engineer for the SDN Controller within the LEO network initiative in Redmond, WA. You will help design and deliver scalable networking software that spans space and terrestrial infrastructure, integrating control plane operations and telemetry into a global telecom service.

You will contribute to high throughput, low-latency networking across satellites and ground segments, implement on-orbit payload workflows, and drive operational excellence while

Qualifications

• 3+ years of non-internship professional software development experience.
• 2+ years of non-internship design or architecture (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience.
• 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 experience

System design & architecture

Programming language proficiency

Education

Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent

Job description

Amazon is seeking a Software Development Engineer for the SDN Controller within the LEO network initiative in Redmond, WA. You will help design and deliver scalable networking software that spans space and terrestrial infrastructure, integrating control plane operations and telemetry into a global telecom service.

You will contribute to high throughput, low-latency networking across satellites and ground segments, implement on-orbit payload workflows, and drive operational excellence while