Software Development Engineer, Networking, Project Kuiper – Amazon
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Amazon (501+ Employees, 142% 2 Yr Employee Growth Rate)
91% 1-Year Employee Growth Rate | 142% 2-Year Employee Growth Rate | LinkedIn | $108M Venture Funding
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Job summary
Project Kuiper is an initiative 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.
THE ROLE:
Have you wanted an opportunity to develop the core wireless and networking for an advanced global telecom service via both space and terrestrial networks? Project Kuiper’s Software Defined Networking (SDN) team will design, implement and operate the network virtualization stack and control plane. We aim to provide a high throughput telecom service using a system of Low Earth Orbit satellites, customer terminals, gateways, Cloud services and terrestrial network infrastructure that connect into public and private networks.
JOB RESPONSIBILITIES
- Take responsibility for designing and delivering a modern, flexible, high throughput, low latency network virtualization architecture.
- Implement services for network provisioning and planning in SDN to create the best-in-class network services for delivering high throughput, low latency traffic.
- Define and automate the standard processes for design, implementation, and maintenance of network operations including incident resolution.
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.
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
- 1+ years of experience contributing to the system design or architecture (architecture, design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and current systems.
- 2+ years of non-internship professional software development experience
- Programming experience with at least one software programming language.
- Familiarity with the syntax of languages such as Java, C/C++, Go or Python.
- Knowledge of Computer Science fundamentals such as object-oriented design, algorithm design, data structures, problem solving, and complexity analysis.
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
- Background with computer network design and architecture
- Experience with networking and the application of Layer 3/4 design.
- Experience with distributed, multi-tiered systems, algorithms, and relational databases.
- Effectively articulate technical challenges and solutions.
- Adept at handling ambiguous or undefined problems as well as ability to think abstractly.
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