Software Development Engineer , Project Kuiper / Kuiper SMART (Science, Machine Learning, AI and Reporting)

Project Kuiper is an initiative to increase global broadband access through a constellation of 3236 satellites in low Earth orbit (LEO). Its mission is to bring fast affordable broadband to unserved and underserved communities around the world. Project Kuiper will help close the digital divide by delivering fast affordable broadband to a wide range of customers including consumers businesses government agencies and other organizations operating in places without reliable connectivity.

The Role
Have you wanted an opportunity to develop the software applications and services for an advanced global telecom service This role of for a Software Development Engineer who will contribute to the design implementation and operations of globally available distributed systems geared towards controlling managing and monitoring Kuipers terrestrial devices.

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.

Key job responsibilities
Take responsibility for designing and delivering modern flexible scalable solutions to complex optimization problems for operating and planning satellite constellations
Work with our peer teams and customers to design suitable software systems to fulfill the mission needs.
Write code for production cloud native software systems in Java.
Utilize AWS and other Amazon technologies to build highavailable software services.
Help onboard and mentor new team members.
Lead technical roadmap definition efforts and decide what software services to build.
Define and automate processes used for software development implementation testing and maintenance
Provide operational excellence and define/refine operational processes

A day in the life
This role is for a Software Development Engineer who will build new cloud services and APIs that manage customer devices such as applying software updates telemetry and selfhealing. You will be building lowlatency highly scalable architecture that are critical to getting high quality internet service to customers.

About the team
We build the cloud systems and APIs for customer device management. Customers devices keep running optimally because of our underlying systems.

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

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Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $129300/year in our lowest geographic market up to $223600/year in our highest geographic market. Pay is based on a number of factors including market location and may vary depending on jobrelated knowledge skills and experience. Amazon is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered equity signon 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 This position will remain posted until filled. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.