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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
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Software Development Engineer, Software Defined Network Controller, Amazon LEO joins the Software Defined Network controller team to build the brain driving the Leo Network. This role involves designing, implementing, and operating the control plane for a high throughput telecom service involving Low Earth Orbit satellites, customer terminals, gateways, cloud services, and terrestrial network infrastructure. You will design and deliver a modern, scalable, low latency network architecture while implementing RF beam and optical link planning. Daily tasks include developing highly-available software for physical and virtual nodes and automating processes for testing and maintenance. The role requires proficiency in C#, C++, Java, or Perl, along with Object Oriented Design, distributed software systems, and multi-threaded applications to solve multi-dimensional resource allocation problems across global space and terrestrial networks.
What does a Software Development Engineer earn in Washington?
Median $169050 from 129 postings across 6 companies.
Design and deliver a modern, scalable, high-throughput, and low-latency network architecture.
Implement RF beam and optical link planning to provide broadband network services.
Develop highly-available software to drive networking control plane operations on physical and virtual nodes.
Define and automate processes for software development, implementation, testing, and maintenance.
Provide operational excellence for control plane services by refining operational processes and tools.
Interact with ground control and monitoring services to fine-tune network performance.
What we're looking for
Candidates must be a U.S. citizen, national, permanent resident, refugee, or granted asylum due to export control laws.
Bachelor's degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related field.
3+ years of non-internship professional software development experience.
3+ years of non-internship design or architecture experience regarding design patterns, reliability, and scaling of systems.
3+ years of software development engineer or related occupational experience.
3+ years of experience designing and developing large-scale, multi-tiered, multi-threaded, embedded, or distributed software using C#, C++, Java, or Perl.
3+ years of Object Oriented Design experience.
Experience programming with at least one software programming language.
3+ years of full software development life cycle experience, including coding standards, code reviews, source control, build processes, testing, and operations (preferred).
SDN
C++
Java
C#
Perl
Object Oriented Design
Network Architecture
Source Control Management
Software Development Life Cycle
Cloud Services
Optical Link Planning
SDN
Network Architecture
Control Plane
Cloud Services
Software Development Life Cycle
Source Control Management
Continuous Deployment
Testing
Design Patterns
SDN
C
Rust
Routing and Forwarding
Traffic Engineering
Network Architecture
Cloud Services
Source Control Management
Build Processes
Testing
Software Development Life Cycle