Sr. Software Development Engineer, Kuiper Network Orchestration

About the position

Project Kuiper 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. In this role as a SDE, you will be part of the core technical team building the API for enabling customers to orchestrate their network on Kuiper to help them connect to the external world. This opportunity will afford you an exciting SDE leadership role in Project Kuiper that would enable you to architect and build software from the ground up and drive the engineering culture of the team.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate and lead initiatives across multiple teams to build networking functions on AWS cloud infrastructure and set best practices for software development processes.
• Lead teams, develop code, build CI/CD pipelines, test automation, and dashboards for monitoring health of systems and data pipelines.
• Work with multiple cross functional teams to gather requirements, design, develop, deploy, and operate the infrastructure you build.
• Develop and mentor junior and new team members.
• Engineer and build a cloud service that is reliable and available to provide connectivity for our customers.
• Work on features that enhance the quality of service and security for our customers.

Requirements

• 5+ years of non-internship professional software development experience.
• 5+ years of programming with at least one software programming language experience.
• 5+ years of leading design or architecture (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience.
• Experience as a mentor, tech lead or leading an engineering team.

Nice-to-haves

• 5+ years of full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations experience.
• Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent.