Space-Grade SDN Engineer for Global Telecom Network

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

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

401(k) matching

Paid time off

Job summary

Amazon LEO is developing a massive satellite and terrestrial network to deliver high-speed broadband worldwide. The SDN controller team focuses on a scalable, high-throughput control plane that coordinates space and ground infrastructure, including gateways, clouds, and customer terminals.

The role emphasizes building reliable software, implementing deployment workflows, and maintaining performance under global demand.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of non-internship professional software development experience.
• 2+ years of non-internship design or architecture (design patterns, reliability and scaling) experience.
• Experience programming with at least one software programming language.

Responsibilities

• Design and deliver a modern, flexible, scalable, high throughput, low latency network architecture.
• Implement workflows to orchestrate on orbit payload activities.
• Develop highly-available software that will drive networking control plane operation on nodes.
• Define and automate processes used for software development, testing, and maintenance.
• Provide operational excellence for control plane services and refine operational processes.
• Diagnose routing and forwarding issues across control plane, data plane, and topology.
• Integrate telemetry, topology, link-state, and network-condition data into route computation and control systems.

Skills

Software development

Design/architecture

Programming languages

Education

Bachelor's degree in computer science

Job description

Amazon LEO is developing a massive satellite and terrestrial network to deliver high-speed broadband worldwide. The SDN controller team focuses on a scalable, high-throughput control plane that coordinates space and ground infrastructure, including gateways, clouds, and customer terminals.

The role emphasizes building reliable software, implementing deployment workflows, and maintaining performance under global demand.