Senior Software Developer, Kuiper Enterprise Technology, Project Kuiper

Bellevue, WA, United States

Description

Have you ever wanted to be part of a team who is building industry changing technology? Amazon’s Project Kuiper is an initiative to launch a constellation of Low Earth Orbit satellites that will provide low-latency, high-speed broadband network connectivity to unserved and underserved communities around the world.

In Project Kuiper Enterprise Technology, we build the software, services, and infrastructure that enable our program to design and engineer the future of LEO Satellite based broadband services. Our team succeeds when the entire Project Kuiper organization can scale as needed to be successful. This role will lead a team of Engineers responsible for designing and implementing infrastructure solutions for Kuiper.

Key job responsibilities

Highly analytical and data-driven: You solve problems in ways that are backed up with data.

Technically fearless: You push the limits past conventional boundaries.

Team obsessed: You mentor junior engineers and provide guidance.

You are ambitious, yet humble. You recognize that there is always opportunity for improvement and use introspection and feedback from teammates and peers to raise the bar for your team.

You are able to explore new problem spaces with unique constraints and thus non-obvious solutions.

Own technical vision and direction: You identify and mitigate risks, and build for the long term.

Collaborate on product direction: You will build solutions that surprise and delight our internal customers in a range of disciplines - Mechanical Engineering, PLM, Embedded Software, Product, User Experience, QA.

Lead beyond your team: You will be a key part of a small but growing community of senior engineering leaders. You will share your best practices and technical acumen in order to drive technology decisions across our organization.

Own your own shop: Our products will reach hundreds of millions of customers around the world. We run operations and the services your team delivers must meet high standards for operational excellence. Our teams own and operate the systems we build.

Export Control Requirements: Due to the need to access certain federal controlled information, you must be a U.S. citizen for consideration.

A day in the life

In initial expectations, this role will enable Kuiper’s enterprise applications, design tools and homegrown software services with best in class infrastructure solutions. Looking deeper, this is a unique opportunity for a skilled senior engineer to define and drive technical solutions from scratch.

This role is has broad scope and requires working closely with fellow engineers in the team as well as in Networking, IT, Mechanical Engineering and Enterprise Applications to understand the technical demands to meet competing requirements. Strategic technical direction in order to scale Kuiper's Infrastructure solution over time as well as tactical application to make sure all applications and services across the Kuiper landscape are functioning as expected.

About the team

Here at Amazon, we embrace our differences. We are committed to furthering our culture of inclusion. Amazon has ten employee-led affinity groups, reaching 40,000 employees in over 190 chapters globally. We have innovative benefit offerings, and host annual and ongoing learning experiences. Amazon’s culture of inclusion is reinforced within our 16 Leadership Principles, which remind team members to seek diverse perspectives, learn and be curious, and earn trust.

At Amazon, our mission is to be the most customer-centric company on Earth. To get there, we need exceptionally talented, bright and driven people. We're dedicated to supporting new team members. Our team has a broad mix of experience levels and Amazon tenures, and we’re building an environment that celebrates knowledge sharing and mentorship.

We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations:

Bellevue, WA, USA

Basic Qualifications

5+ years of non-internship professional software development experience

5+ years of programming with at least one software programming language experience

5+ years of leading design or architecture (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience

Experience as a mentor, tech lead or leading an engineering team

Preferred Qualifications

5+ 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

High attention to detail and intrinsic motivation required; as well as proven track record of launching highly reliable, fault tolerant services.

Professional experience architecting, operating cloud-based solutions.

AWS Solution Architecture certification or relevant cloud expertise.

Experience migrating or transforming legacy customer solutions to the cloud.

Demonstrated ability to adapt to new technologies and learn quickly.

Able to adapt to new technologies, learn quickly, and manage high ambiguity.

Amazon is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status. For individuals with disabilities who would like to request an accommodation, please visit https://www.amazon.jobs/en/disability/us.

Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $134,500/year in our lowest geographic market up to $261,500/year in our highest geographic market. Pay is based on a number of factors including market location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Amazon is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered, equity, sign-on payments, and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package, in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits. For more information, please visit https://www.aboutamazon.com/workplace/employee-benefits. This position will remain posted until filled. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.