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Sr. Software Development Manager, Amazon Leo, Network Observability, Amazon Leo

Amazon · Redmond, WA · 2 mo ago
ConsultingFull-time

Amazon Leo is an initiative to launch a constellation of Low Earth Orbit satellites that will provide low-latency, high-speed broadband network connectivity to unserved and underserved communities around the world — from individual households to schools, hospitals, businesses, and government agencies. The Leo Software Defined Networking (SDN) team designs, implements, and operates the network virtualization stack and SDN control plane signaling. Our scope spans beam planning, routing, and forwarding through our SDN Controller, Agents, and Applications that provide 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.

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

  • Organizational Leadership
    • Lead a multi-layered organization of 50+ software engineers, managers, and TPMs with end-to-end scope
    • Build a high-performance engineering culture grounded in ownership, velocity, and operational excellence
    • Provide career development for a group of exceptional software developers
  • End-to-End Technical Ownership
    • Manage the software lifecycle of deliverables from concept to operations, encompassing networking software deployed in the Cloud and telemetry data published from satellites, gateways, and customer terminals
    • Own and drive execution of the multi-year vision and strategy for the team
    • Develop new network observability features that offer improved quality and functionality
    • Lead cross-organizational integration and troubleshooting initiatives across challenging mobile, space, and terrestrial environments
    • Define long-term architecture and ensure scalability, reliability, and maintainability across product generations
  • Operational Excellence
    • Define, manage, and monitor KPIs for your systems
    • Define mechanisms and processes to ensure predictable/high-quality software deliveries and continuous improvement
    • Translate ambiguous product concepts into clear, executable engineering plans
  • Cross-Functional System Design
    • Partner with satellite, gateway, network planning, and commerce and product teams to define system architecture, requirements, and roadmap

Requirements

  • 5+ years of engineering team management experience
  • 10+ years of planning, designing, developing, and delivering consumer software experience
  • Experience partnering with product or program management teams
  • Experience managing multiple concurrent programs, projects, and development teams in an Agile environment

Preferred Qualifications

  • Experience partnering with product and program management teams
  • Experience designing and developing large-scale, high-traffic applications
  • Experience leading large-scale, technical or engineering programs with a proven record of thought leadership, business case development, realizing customer benefits, and successful program completion
  • Experience in written and verbal communication with the ability to present complex technical information in a clear and concise manner to executives and non-technical leaders
  • 4+ years of distributed systems experience, or Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, mathematics, or equivalent
  • Experience in management: developing engineers into managers and building teams
  • Experience leading the architecture and design (architecture, design patterns, reliability, and scaling) of new and current systems, or experience building complex software systems that have been successfully delivered to customers

Pay

USA, WA, Redmond - $220,100.00 - $297,700.00 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

Learn more about our benefits at https://amazon.jobs/en/benefits.

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