Software Development Engineer , Kuiper SDN

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 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 worlds 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 Leos 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-users perspective as we design and develop network functions that serve their unique asks.

- 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

- 3 years of full software development life cycle including coding standards code reviews source control management build processes testing and operations experience
- Bachelors 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 WA Redmond - 143700.00 - 194400.00 USD annually

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