Senior Satellite Networking Architect - Edge & Carrier-Grade

Amazon; Washington, Tacoma (District of Columbia, WA, MD); On-site; USD 154,000 - 208,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

RSUs+401(k) benefits

Paid time off

Job summary

Amazon Kuiper Commercial Services LLC is seeking a Solutions Architect to engage with mobile operators, broadcasters, and infrastructure teams to influence roadmap and design carrier-grade networking solutions across fiber, wireless, and satellite environments.

You will lead technical discovery, develop reference architectures, and collaborate with product management and engineering to deliver end-to-end architectures for hybrid cloud networking and edge compute.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of design, implementation, or consulting in applications and infrastructures
• 6+ years of IT development or implementation/consulting in the software or Internet industries experience
• 6+ years of specific technology domain areas (e.g. software development, cloud computing, systems engineering, infrastructure, security, networking, data & analytics) experience

Responsibilities

• Be the voice of the customer — engage with mobile network operators, broadcasters, tower companies, infrastructure teams, maritime/aviation providers, and rural broadband deployments to influence the roadmap of new features and service capabilities
• Incubate and launch new solutions — design end-to-end architectures, lead technical discovery sessions, develop reference solutions, and support proofs of concept across LEO satellite and hybrid network environments
• Translate customer requirements into product direction — understand the technical requirements of our customers and guide the evolution of offerings with a focus on carrier-grade networking, WAN architectures, routing, traffic engineering, QoS, and hybrid connectivity across fiber, wireless, and satellite environments
• Solve technical and commercial blockers creatively — develop new product offerings that bridge physical network constraints with scalable IP and cloud-integrated architectures
• Earn trust through transparency and expertise — build long-term strategic partnerships with customers by demonstrating subject matter expertise in satellite communications, 4G/5G architectures, transport networks, backhaul systems, private wireless deployments, and distributed edge infrastructure
• Develop and share technical content — create and capture best practices, reference architectures, white papers, code samples, and blog posts covering edge compute, hybrid cloud networking, secure overlays, and latency-sensitive workloads
• Grow the Solutions Architecture organization — contribute through hiring, coaching, and mentoring others, and support knowledge sharing across the team

Skills

Carrier-grade IP networking

4G/5G architectures

Edge compute

Hybrid connectivity

Satellite communications

Tools

Automation tools

Job description

Amazon Kuiper Commercial Services LLC is seeking a Solutions Architect to engage with mobile operators, broadcasters, and infrastructure teams to influence roadmap and design carrier-grade networking solutions across fiber, wireless, and satellite environments.

You will lead technical discovery, develop reference architectures, and collaborate with product management and engineering to deliver end-to-end architectures for hybrid cloud networking and edge compute.