Systems Development Engineer, Kuiper Network Services

We have space lasers!

Project Kuiper is Amazons Low Earth Orbit satellite broadband network. Its mission is to provide low-latency, high-speed broadband connectivity to unserved and underserved communities around the world. Join us in delivering fast, reliable internet to customers and communities around the world.

We are looking for a collaborative and curious Systems Development Engineer to build the tooling and automation required to scale and operate a global Service Provider network. You will create ground-up processes, solve for complex scenarios, and be part of the team planning and deploying the terrestrial interface to a constellation of 3,236 satellites.

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.

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
- Build and maintain critical systems, tools, and workflows to deploy, maintain, and monitor network devices
- Integrate with existing systems such as trouble ticketing, dashboards, and metrics tools and services
- Mentor engineers and collaborate with other software development, systems development, and network teams.
- Provide support and incident response as part of an on-call rotation

A day in the life
A Systems Development Engineer in Kuiper Network Services is responsible for designing, developing, testing, deploying, and operating services that enable broadband networks systems worldwide. We write and debug code, integrate new and existing systems, and create the worlds most innovative products. We work in collaboration with other teams for designing and delivering scalable, flexible, low latency, and high throughput network functions. We develop flexible and cost-effective solutions in support of connecting and peering with public and private networks.

About the team
Kuiper Networks goal to connect users around the world is a commitment to not just establish networks but to connect customers to services. These services enable customer terminals and applications the ability to interface with the larger world. Our services come into focus for each Kuiper subscriber at activation from address assignment and name resolution to secure and programmable network functions. The Network Services team works backward from end-users perspective as we design and develop network functions that serve their unique asks.

- 3+ years of non-internship professional software development experience
- 3+ years of administrative experience in networking, storage systems, operating systems and hands-on systems engineering experience
- 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 networking fundamentals including hands-on experience with load balancers, switches, routers, etc.
- Experience building services using AWS products
- Experience with distributed systems at scale

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.

Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $116,300/year in our lowest geographic market up to $201,200/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.