Software Development Engineer , Kuiper SDN

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

Benefits offered by this job

RSUs

Health insurance

401(k) matching

Parental leave

Job summary

Amazon Leo is launching a constellation of satellites to provide low-latency broadband worldwide. As an SDE-II, you will join the core technical team building the network infrastructure for satellite-to-ground connectivity.

A SDE in this role designs, develops, tests, deploys, and operates services enabling global broadband networks. You will collaborate across teams and help drive engineering culture within Amazon Leo.

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

• Collaborate with engineers across the org to gather requirements, design, develop, deploy, and operate across solution pipelines.
• Work on initiatives building networking functions on AWS as well as Amazon Leo embedded infrastructure and help implement best practices for software development.
• Develop code, build CI/CD pipelines, test automation, and dashboards for monitoring health of systems and data pipelines.
• Help engineer and build solutions for provisioning, address management, packet inspection and dynamic traffic management for Internet service providers.

Skills

Software development

System design

Programming language

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS or equivalent

Tools

C/C++

Rust

Job description

Amazon Leo is an initiative to launch a constellation of low earth orbit satellites that will provide low-latency, high-speed broadband internet connectivity to un-served and under-served communities around the world. In this role as a SDE-II, you will be part of the core technical team building the network infrastructure for satellite to ground based connectivity. This opportunity will afford you an exciting SDE leadership role in Amazon Leo that would enable you drive the engineering culture of the team.

Export Control Requirement: Due to applicable export control laws and regulations, candidates must be a U.S. citizen or national, U.S. permanent resident (i.e., current Green Card holder), or lawfully admitted into the U.S. as a refugee or granted asylum.

Key job responsibilities

• You will collaborate with engineers across the org to gather requirements, design, develop, deploy, and operate across solution pipelines.
• You will work on initiatives building networking functions on AWS as well as Amazon Leo embedded infrastructure and help implement best practices for software development.
• You will develop code, build CI/CD pipelines, test automation, and dashboards for monitoring health of systems and data pipelines.
• You will help engineer and build solutions which are required for provisioning, address management, packet inspection and dynamic traffic management for Internet service providers.

A day in the life

A SDE in Amazon Leo is responsible for designing, developing, testing, deploying, and operating services that enable broadband networks systems worldwide. We write code, debug, and create the world's most innovative products. We work in collaboration with other teams for designing and delivering scalable, flexible, low latency, and high throughput network functions. We develop flexible and cost-effective solutions in support of connecting and peering with public and private networks.

About the team

Amazon Leo's goal to connect users around the world, is a commitment to not just establish networks but to connect customers to services. These services enable customer terminals and applications the ability to interface with the larger world. Our services come into focus for each Leo subscriber at activation from address assignment and name resolution to secure and programmable network functions. The Network Services team walks backward from end-user's perspective as we design and develop network functions that serve their unique asks.

Basic 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

Preferred Qualifications

• 3+ years of full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations experience
• Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent
• Experience with systems languages (C, C++, Rust)
• Experience with embedded devices and writing applications for resource-constrained environments

Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status.

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The base salary range for this position is listed below. Your Amazon package will include sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience, qualifications, and location. Amazon also offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans, EAP, Mental Health Support, Medical Advice Line, Flexible Spending Accounts, Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage), 401(k) matching, paid time off, and parental leave. Learn more about our benefits at https://amazon.jobs/en/benefits.

USA, WA, Redmond - 143,700.00 - 194,400.00 USD annually