Senior System Dev Engineer, Leo Software & Networking

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DESCRIPTION:

Amazon Leo is Amazon's low Earth orbit satellite network. Our mission is to deliver fast, reliable internet connectivity to customers beyond the reach of existing networks. From individual households to schools, hospitals, businesses, and government agencies, Amazon Leo will serve people and organizations operating in locations without reliable connectivity.

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.

A Senior Systems Development Engineer in Leo Network Services is responsible for designing, developing, testing, deploying, and operating systems/services that enable broadband networks systems worldwide.

We write and debug code, integrate new
and existing systems, and create the world's 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.

A key aspect of your position will be serving as a liaison between software teams and hardware teams.  In this capacity, you will capture requirements for designing new satellite system capabilities to enable software feature development (examples include handover, mobility, Time Varying Channel emulation).

Key job responsibilities
Key job responsibilities

* Experience programming with at least one programming language (C++, C#, Java, Python)

* Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or
similar technical field.

* Experienced in embedded Linux systems

* Experienced with automation, debugging, building test tools and testing
frameworks

* Experienced in computer networking (admin level)

A day in the life
The successful applicant will be experienced in designing new satellite system capabilities (mobility, handover...) to enable software teams the capabilities to verify new features in the satellite & customer terminals. You should be comfortable taking on ambiguous challenges like setting up new pre-production hardware for the first time. You should be able to define SOPs, metrics and alarms to keep equipment/satellite infrastructure highly available and expand the teams capabilities over time.

You will be invaluable to enabling the team to move quickly and confidently with robust verification frameworks that scale with our systems.

About the team
The Leo Plexus team owns complex satellite systems, tools and software to enable new software & networking features to be developed and deployed on live orbiting satellites/ground equipment.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS:

- Experience leading the design, automation, deployment, and support of large-scale infrastructure
- Experience programming with at least one modern language such as Python, Ruby, Golang, Java, C++, C#, Rust

- Experience with Linux/Unix
- Knowledge of at least one modern programming language such as C, C++, Java, or Perl

- Experience with CI/CD pipelines build processes

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:

- Experience with distributed systems at scale
- Highly autonomous, very detail oriented, and willing to learn new skills
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, and an ability to interact efficiently with peers and customers
- The desire and ability to work in a fast paced, collaborative environment
- Experience in communicating with users, other technical teams, and management to collect requirements, evaluate alternatives and develop processes and tools as needed to support the organization
- Knowledge of industry standard test automation tools and experience in developing product test harnesses and instrumenting products to gather test results
- Experience designing and expanding automated testing tools and frameworks

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Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $136,100/year in our lowest geographic market up to $235,200/year in our highest geographic market. Pay is based on a number of factors…