Systems Development Engineer, Kuiper Ground Infrastructure Operations, Kuiper Ground Infrastructure Operations
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Job Summary
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.
As a System Development Engineer you will build tools and processes for monitoring operating and scaling ground infrastructure to millions of users around the globe. Use and enhance the tools you and the team develop. Using metrics scalability in design and continuous improvement you will automate repetitive processes to eliminate outages and enable high availability of the ground infrastructure.
Key job responsibilities
Continuously strive for operational excellence by seeking to automate away manual processes
* Ensure that all systems are designed to be robust scalable maintainable and adaptable as the service scales and evolves over time
* Build and maintain critical infrastructure tools and operating procedures to report on the health of ground infrastructure.
* Integrate with other existing systems such as trouble ticketing dashboards and metrics tools and services
* Measure and improve the performance and availability of the Kuiper Ground Infrastructure
* Provide critical operations support and incident response for the service while taking part in an on-call rotation
A day in the life
Mentoring Design Coding Operational Excellence:
Work with business partners leadership and other engineers influence and lead the design of systems. We need your ideas and your ability to take initiative innovate and produce results as we continuously improve the customer experience.
Day to day work will vary between automation or other scripting work operational excellence initiatives design meetings coordination with engineering teams and external partners and an on-call rotation.
About the team
The team is comprised of a leader System Development Engineers and Network Development Engineers in North America Europe and Australia. The overall mission is to ensure Kuiper Ground Infrastructure is always available to serve customers.
This position may require access to information technology or hardware that is subject to export control laws and regulations including the Export Administration Regulations (EAR) and the International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR). Employment in this position is contingent upon obtaining any required export licenses or other approvals from the United States government. As such the successful candidate must be eligible to obtain any necessary export licenses or approvals based on their nationality citizenship and any other factors considered by the applicable export control regulations.
- Experience in automating deploying and supporting large-scale infrastructure
- Experience programming with at least one modern language such as Python Ruby Golang Java C C# Rust
- Experience with Linux/Unix
- Experience with CI/CD pipelines build processes
- Experience with distributed systems at scale
Acknowledgement of country:
In the spirit of reconciliation Amazon acknowledges the Traditional Custodians of country throughout Australia and their connections to land sea and community. We pay our respect to their elders past and present and extend that respect to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples today.
IDE statement:
Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status disability or other legally protected status.
Our inclusive culture empowers Amazonians to deliver the best results for our customers. If you have a disability and need a workplace accommodation or adjustment during the application and hiring process including support for the interview or onboarding process please visit for more information. If the country/region youre applying in isnt listed please contact your Recruiting Partner.
As a System Development Engineer you will build tools and processes for monitoring operating and scaling ground infrastructure to millions of users around the globe. Use and enhance the tools you and the team develop. Using metrics scalability in design and continuous improvement you will automate repetitive processes to eliminate outages and enable high availability of the ground infrastructure.
Key job responsibilities
Continuously strive for operational excellence by seeking to automate away manual processes
* Ensure that all systems are designed to be robust scalable maintainable and adaptable as the service scales and evolves over time
* Build and maintain critical infrastructure tools and operating procedures to report on the health of ground infrastructure.
* Integrate with other existing systems such as trouble ticketing dashboards and metrics tools and services
* Measure and improve the performance and availability of the Kuiper Ground Infrastructure
* Provide critical operations support and incident response for the service while taking part in an on-call rotation
A day in the life
Mentoring Design Coding Operational Excellence:
Work with business partners leadership and other engineers influence and lead the design of systems. We need your ideas and your ability to take initiative innovate and produce results as we continuously improve the customer experience.
Day to day work will vary between automation or other scripting work operational excellence initiatives design meetings coordination with engineering teams and external partners and an on-call rotation.
About the team
The team is comprised of a leader System Development Engineers and Network Development Engineers in North America Europe and Australia. The overall mission is to ensure Kuiper Ground Infrastructure is always available to serve customers.
This position may require access to information technology or hardware that is subject to export control laws and regulations including the Export Administration Regulations (EAR) and the International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR). Employment in this position is contingent upon obtaining any required export licenses or other approvals from the United States government. As such the successful candidate must be eligible to obtain any necessary export licenses or approvals based on their nationality citizenship and any other factors considered by the applicable export control regulations.
- Experience in automating deploying and supporting large-scale infrastructure
- Experience programming with at least one modern language such as Python Ruby Golang Java C C# Rust
- Experience with Linux/Unix
- Experience with CI/CD pipelines build processes
- Experience with distributed systems at scale
Acknowledgement of country:
In the spirit of reconciliation Amazon acknowledges the Traditional Custodians of country throughout Australia and their connections to land sea and community. We pay our respect to their elders past and present and extend that respect to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples today.
IDE statement:
Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status disability or other legally protected status.
Our inclusive culture empowers Amazonians to deliver the best results for our customers. If you have a disability and need a workplace accommodation or adjustment during the application and hiring process including support for the interview or onboarding process please visit for more information. If the country/region youre applying in isnt listed please contact your Recruiting Partner.
Key Skills
- Jenkins
- Ruby
- Python
- Active Directory
- Cloud
- PowerShell
- Windows
- AWS
- Linux
- SAN
- Java
- Troubleshoot
- Backup
- Puppet
- hardware
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