Software Development Engineer Kuiper Government Solutions

Project Kuiper is an initiative to launch a constellation of Low Earth Orbit satellites that will provide lowlatency highspeed broadband connectivity to unserved and underserved communities around the world.

This role is responsible for designing building out and maintaining critical APIs and interfaces to link Kuiper capabilities to US Government customers such as NASA DoD and other National Security customers. You will develop forwardlooking software services for mission critical space safety and sustainability applications which will automatically coordinate with external systems and organizations rapidly reliably and at scale.



Key job responsibilities
In this role you will:
Utilize network topology understanding and Software Defined Networking / network operations experience to interface with the Kuiper network team to develop APIs and other enabling interface software to meet unique customer needs
Demonstrate the capabilities of the interfaces and architectures you define in a simulated test environment you help develop
Solve complex technical problems related to the use of the Kuiper constellation for government customers as part of a multidisciplinary team
Lead internal and vendor teams to develop and deliver on software and interface requirements
Ensure systems meet Kuiper and US Government performance needs including availability reliability upgradeability interoperability and security requirements
Effectively communicate project health risks and issues to stakeholders and management teams
Escalate urgent issues appropriately and drive them to closure in a timely manner
Provide visualizations document results and communicate them across multidisciplinary project teams.

The role is located in Redmond WA and includes US relocation benefits.
This position requires that the candidate selected be a U.S. Citizen in order to comply with U.S. governmentimposed requirements related to the nature of the work and/or where it will be performed.


About the team
The Kuiper Government Solutions team is a multidisciplinary technology team involved in developing and delivering targeted and scalable solutions for custom satellite and ground applications including United States and allied government customers.


3 years of noninternship professional software development experience
2 years of noninternship 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
Software defined networking experience

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