Space SDN Controller Engineer — High-Throughput Network

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

Job summary

Amazon Kuiper Manufacturing Enterprises LLC is seeking a Software Development Engineer for the Software Defined Network Controller on the Amazon Leo project. You will help design and operate the control plane for a massive satellite constellation and terrestrial network, delivering a high-throughput telecom service across space and ground infrastructure.

The role requires 3+ years in software development, strong experience in distributed systems, and proficiency in C++, Java, C#, or Perl.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of non-internship professional software development experience.
• 3+ years of non-internship design or architecture experience (design patterns, reliability and scaling).
• 3+ years of software development engineer or related occupational experience.
• 3+ years of designing and developing large-scale, multi-tiered, multi-threaded, embedded or distributed software applications, tools, systems, and services using: C#, C++, Java, or Perl.

Responsibilities

• Take responsibility for designing and delivering a modern, flexible, scalable, high throughput, low latency network architecture.
• Implement RF beam and optical link planning among other SDN technologies to deliver the best-in-class broadband network services for our customers.
• 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, including enabling tools and definition/refinement of operational processes.

Skills

Software development

Design patterns

OO Design

C++

Java

C#

Perl

Distributed systems

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/Engineering/Math

Foreign equivalent acceptable

Tools

C++

Java

C#

Perl

Job description

Amazon Kuiper Manufacturing Enterprises LLC is seeking a Software Development Engineer for the Software Defined Network Controller on the Amazon Leo project. You will help design and operate the control plane for a massive satellite constellation and terrestrial network, delivering a high-throughput telecom service across space and ground infrastructure.

The role requires 3+ years in software development, strong experience in distributed systems, and proficiency in C++, Java, C#, or Perl.