Sr. Software Development Engineer, Kuiper Ground Gateway Services

Project Kuiper is an initiative to launch a constellation of low earth orbit satellites that will provide low-latency high-speed broadband internet connectivity to un-served and under-served communities around the world.

Key job responsibilities
The primary responsibility you will have in this role are:
* You will collaborate with engineers across the org to gather requirements design develop deploy and operate across solution pipelines.
* You will lead initiatives building and scaling the ground gateway products and help implement best practices for software development.
* You will develop code build CI/CD pipelines test automation and dashboards for monitoring health of systems and data pipelines.
* You will help engineer and build solutions which are required for managing the ground gateway stations.

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
A Sr. SDE in Kuiper Ground Gateway Services is responsible for designing developing testing deploying and operating services that enable ground systems worldwide. We write code debug and create the worlds most innovative products. We work in collaboration with other teams for designing and delivering scalable low latency and high throughput solutions.

About the team
The Kuiper Ground Gateway Services supports the gateway devices that connect our customers to the Kuiper network. We provide software for both applications and the underlying Linux system. We work hand in hand with hardware product and operations teams to deliver a delightful experience for our customers.

- 5 years of non-internship professional software development experience
- 5 years of programming with at least one software programming language experience
- 5 years of leading design or architecture (design patterns reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
- Experience as a mentor tech lead or leading an engineering team

- 8 years of full software development life cycle including coding standards code reviews source control management build processes testing and operations experience
- Masters degree in computer science or equivalent
- Experience with Embedded Linux RTOS or bare metal firmware
- Familiarity with hardware digital communication systems single and multi-carrier techniques modulation or programmable logic
- Strong programming skills in C/C/Rust

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