Software Development Engineer, Kuiper Network Services

Project Kuiper is an initiative to launch a constellation of low earth orbit satellites that will provide low-latency, high-speed broadband internet connectivity to un-served and under-served communities around the world.

In this role as a SDE, you will be part of the core technical team building the network infrastructure for satellite to ground based connectivity.

This opportunity will afford you an exciting SDE leadership role in Project Kuiper that would enable you drive the engineering culture of the team.

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

The primary responsibility you will have in this role are :

• You will collaborate with engineers across the org to gather requirements, design, develop, deploy, and operate across solution pipelines.
• You will work on initiatives building networking functions on AWS infrastructure and help implement best practices for software development.
• You will develop code, build CI / CD pipelines, test automation, and dashboards for monitoring health of systems and data pipelines.
• You will help engineer and build solutions which are required for provisioning, address management, packet inspection and dynamic traffic management for Internet service providers.

A day in the life

A SDE in Kuiper Network Services is responsible for designing, developing, testing, deploying, and operating services that enable broadband networks systems worldwide.

We write code, debug, and create the world’s most innovative products. We work in collaboration with other teams for designing and delivering scalable, low latency, and high throughput network functions.

We develop modular and cost-effective solutions in support of connecting and peering with public and private networks.

About the team

Kuiper Network’s 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 walks backward from end-user’s perspective as we design and develop network functions that serve their unique asks.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

• 3+ years of non-internship professional software development experience
• 2+ years of non-internship design or architecture (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
• Experience programming with at least one software programming language

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Knowledge of professional software engineering & best practices for full software development life cycle, including coding standards, software architectures, code reviews, source control management, continuous deployments, testing, and operational excellence
• Experience programming with at least one modern language such as Java, C++, or C# including object-oriented design, or experience building complex software systems that have been successfully delivered to customers
• Experience in professional software development, building large-scale, high performance systems and networking solutions in using C++ / Java, Java script, Node.

js, React, Rust in a Linux / Unix environment.