Software Development Engineer (SDE), SDN, Amazon LEO

Job description

Amazon LEO is an inititative 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.

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

Do you want to put code in space? Have you wanted an opportunity to develop the core wireless and networking for an advanced global telecom service spanning both space and terrestrial networks? Have you wondered what it takes to solve a multi-dimentional resource allocation problem at global scale?

For this role, you will:

- Take responsibility for designing and delivering a modern, flexible, scalable, high throughput, low latency network architecture

- Implement workflows to orchestrate on orbit payload activities

- Implement highly-available software that will drive 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, to including enabling toolsand 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.

A day in the life

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 the satellite ground control services, the customer engagement systems and monitoring services to constantly fine-tune our network and deliver a high quality service to our customers. You will be responsible to build the best network for our customers.

About the team

The Software Defined Network (SDN) Controller team is building the brain that drives the LEO Network.

Our mission is clear

we own network planning for the entire LEO ecosystem. Every plan that coordinates Customer Terminals, Satellites, Gateways, and the rest of the network flows through our team. And the scale is significant — we generate plans for millions of Customer Terminals and deliver them reliably and on time. When we get it right, millions of people around the globe stay connected to the internet. That is the kind of impact our work delivers.

What makes this team distinctive is where we sit: at the intersection of space and software. We work closely with other LEO teams — network data plane, hardware, satellites, and more — close enough to shape how the physical network behaves, while remaining firmly grounded in the software engineering discipline we are passionate about. You get the excitement of building for orbit without ever stepping away from your craft.

Simply put, we are a team that cares deeply about both space and software. If that combination excites you, we would love to have you build the future of connectivity with us.