Software Development Engineer, Software Defined Network Controller, Amazon LEO

Amazon LEO is an initiative to launch a constellation of Low Earth Orbit satellites that will provide low-latency, high-speed broadband connectivity to unserved and underserved communities around the world.

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.

Responsibilities

• Design and deliver a modern, flexible, scalable, high-throughput, low-latency network architecture
• Implement workflows to orchestrate on-orbit payload activities
• Develop highly-available software that drives networking control plane operation on physical and virtual nodes
• Define and automate processes used for software development, implementation, testing, and maintenance
• Provide operational excellence for control plane services, including enabling tools and definition/refinement of operational processes
• Diagnose routing and forwarding issues across the control plane, data plane, and physical topology
• Integrate telemetry, topology, link-state, and network-condition data into route computation and control systems
• Develop routing behavior for topology transitions, link changes, node movement, degraded links, and failures

About the role

This is an opportunity to be at the heart of the design, building, and operation of a massive satellite constellation and terrestrial network. We interact with satellite ground control services, customer engagement systems, and monitoring services to constantly fine-tune our network and deliver high-quality service to our customers. You will be responsible for building the best network for our customers.

About the team

The Software Defined Network (SDN) controller team is building the brain driving the LEO Network. Innovation is in our DNA, and we tackle the problems presented by a dynamic network at global scale. It is our responsibility to ensure that the network works and our customers have a one-of-a-kind experience using our service. Our team will design, implement, and operate the control plane that provides a high-throughput telecom service comprised of Low Earth Orbit satellites, customer terminals, gateways, Cloud services, and terrestrial network infrastructure that connects into public and private networks.

Requirements

• 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

Preferred Qualifications

• 3+ years of full software development life cycle experience, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations
• Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent
• Knowledge of professional software engineering and best practices for the full software development life cycle, including coding standards, software architectures, code reviews, source control management, continuous deployments, testing, and operational excellence

Pay

USA, WA, Redmond - $143,700.00 - $194,400.00 USD annually

Benefits

• Sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs)
• Health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life & AD&D insurance, and option for Supplemental life plans)
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP) and Mental Health Support
• Medical Advice Line
• Flexible Spending Accounts
• Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage
• 401(k) matching
• Paid time off
• Parental leave