Software Development Engineer, Kuiper Ground Systems Engineering

Project Kuiper is an initiative to launch a constellation of Low Earth Orbit satellites that will provide low-latency high-speed broadband connectivity to unserved and under-served communities around the world. We are looking for a Software Development Engineer to help us build this service from the ground up.

Key job responsibilities
Work with stakeholders across the Kuiper organization to define design implement and optimize a state-of-the-art condition monitoring and remediation system for ground terminals.

Own the deployed monitoring and remediation system including leadership of a small team ensuring performance meets/exceeds published SLAs/KPIs.

Own the full software development lifecycle - including design testing deployment mission integration and operational support.

Work with applied scientists/engineers on our team to define test and implement machine-learned anomaly detection tools predictive maintenance workflows and automated remediation applications.

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.

A day in the life
In this role as a Software Development Engineer you will design implement optimize and operate systems critical to the uptime and performance of Kuiper ground terminals. Your contributions will have a direct impact on customers around the world.

About the team
The Kuiper Ground Systems Engineering team is responsible for the development deployment and long-term performance optimization of Kuiper satellite ground terminals located around the world (Gateway and Telemetry Tracking and Command (TT&C)). Ground terminals include full-motion parabolic antennas radio frequency spectrum monitoring terminal monitoring and control and fault management systems. These software-driven distributed systems form the communications backbone for the Kuiper constellation and must provide the world-class reliability uptime and performance our customers expect from Amazon.

- 3 years of non-internship professional software development experience
- 2 years of non-internship 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 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 This position will remain posted until filled. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.