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.
We are hiring a System Development Engineer to develop and integrate hardware and software for satellite production manufacturing and test applications.
This is a highly collaborative position that interfaces with Amazon Leo production, engineering, and IT infrastructure teams.
Key job responsibilities
- Manufacturing automation development: The SysDE will develop automated manufacturing applications on the Kuiper SCADA (Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition) platform.
- Ownership and collaboration: The SysDE is responsible for learning and addressing the business needs through interaction with partner teams. The SysDE will generate requirements collaboratively, document and collect customer feedback on the design, then implement and iterate. The SysDE is a single-threaded owner, responsible for delivering functioning applications to production, providing support for startup activities, and participating in an on-call rotation for production downtime escalations.
- Security and compliance: Produce system architecture and design documents for end-user, front line support, and security review purposes. Ensure that system integrations comply with internal IT and Security standards, with code that is well-documented and version controlled.
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.
- Experience in automating, deploying, and supporting infrastructure
- Experience programming with at least one modern language such as Python, Ruby, Golang, Java, C++, C#, Rust
- Experience with Linux/Unix
- Experience with CI/CD pipelines build processes
- Experience with TCP/ICP networking fundamentals and application of IP protocols such as: DNS, DHCP, NTP, SMTP, and SNMP
- Experience with iterative, agile development methodologies (including scrum)
- Knowledge of distributed, multi-tiered systems, algorithms, and relational databases
- Knowledge of hardware platforms
