Senior SDE, Kuiper

Description

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.

Are you passionate about developing mission-critical software systems? As part of the Atlas team, youll build and maintain the backbone software infrastructure that powers our entire organization. Your work will include:

– Creating systems and services for ingesting, processing, and visualizing vast amounts of satellite telemetry data

– Building real-time monitoring systems to identify anomalies, detect emerging trends, and proactively alert stakeholders to critical situations that require intervention

– Ensuring extremely high reliability, uptime, and performance across systems that receive and manage telemetry streams from thousands of endpoint

The systems we build serve a fundamental role in the successful functioning of the satellite constellation, and several supporting teams. They depend on us to have mission-critical reliability, uptime, and performance.

Key job responsibilities

– Develop software systems that meet the mission criteria and requirements.

– Collaborate with your fellow team members to form a strong foundation for a software organization in Project Kuiper.

– Help on-board new team members.

– Utilize AWS and other Amazon technologies to build high-available software services.

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.

About the team

The Atlas software engineering group is responsible for developing and maintaining the critical software infrastructure that enables multi-region telemetry data ingestion, health monitoring, and trend analysis across Amazons Kuiper systems. As the core team building and managing these foundational data pipelines and analytics systems, the Atlas team bears significant ownership and responsibility to ensure high availability, performance, and scalability are met to satisfy business needs.

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

– Bachelors degree in computer science or equivalent

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 $151,300/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.