SDE, Kuiper Network Services

Amazon Inc

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Work type
On-site
Location
Sunnyvale, CARedmond, WA
Salary
$165,200–$223,600 / yr
Posted
68 days ago
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Confirmed live yesterday

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About Amazon Inc

Amazon Inc. is the world''s largest e-commerce and cloud computing company, operating the Amazon marketplace, AWS cloud platform, Prime subscription services, Alexa voice AI, and logistics infrastructure. Industry: E-Commerce & Cloud Computing

Amazon Inc currently has 643 open roles on FindRole.

Listed pay typically runs $143,700–$194,400 across 636 roles with salary data.

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TL;DR · SDE, Kuiper Network Services

SDE- Kuiper Network Services will join the core technical team building ground-based traffic processing pipelines for the Project Kuiper low Earth orbit satellite broadband network. The role involves architecting and building cloud services from the ground up to provide reliable connectivity, developing code, and creating CI/CD pipelines, test automation, and monitoring dashboards. You will collaborate with cross-functional teams to design, deploy, and operate infrastructure while mentoring junior team members. Key technical requirements include experience with Unix/Linux environments, distributed systems, Service Oriented Architecture, and data structures. Preferred skills include AWS products, Kubernetes, Docker, and networking fundamentals. You will solve complex problems by building networking functions on AWS cloud infrastructure to enhance service quality and security for customers in locations without reliable connectivity.

What you'll do

  • Develop code, CI/CD pipelines, test automation, and monitoring dashboards for data pipelines.
  • Engineer and build reliable cloud services to provide satellite network connectivity.
  • Design, develop, deploy, and operate ground-based traffic processing infrastructure.
  • Build networking functions on AWS cloud infrastructure and establish software development best practices.
  • Implement features to enhance service quality and security for customers.
  • Debug and create innovative products for prototype and production environments.
  • Operate service fleets and resolve customer issues to ensure a high-quality experience.
  • Mentor junior and new team members on technical tasks and engineering culture.

What we're looking for

  • Candidates must be a U.S. citizen, national, permanent resident, or lawfully admitted refugee/asylee due to export control laws.
  • 3+ years of non-internship professional software development experience.
  • 2+ years of non-internship design or architecture experience for new and existing systems.
  • Experience programming with at least one software programming language.
  • Experience managing efforts in Unix/Linux environments, distributed systems, or large-scale web applications.
  • Experience designing and building large-scale systems in a multi-tiered, distributed environment (Service Oriented Architecture).
  • Knowledge of data structures, algorithm design, statistics, and system design.
  • Experience building services using AWS products (preferred).

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