Sr. Software Dev Engineer, Kuiper SDN Team

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 connectivity to unserved and underserved communities around the world. This is an opportunity to be at the heart of the design, building and operation of a massive satellite constellation and terrestrial network. We interact with the satellite ground control services, the customer engagement systems and monitoring services to constantly fine-tune our network and deliver a high quality service to our customers. You will be responsible to build the best network for our customers.

Responsibilities

• Take responsibility for designing and delivering a modern, flexible, scalable, high throughput, low latency network architecture
• Implement Routing and Forwarding, Traffic Engineering, and SDN technologies to deliver the best-in-class broadband network services for our customers
• Implement highly-available software that will drive networking control plane operation on physical and virtual nodes
• Define and automate processes used for software development, implementation, testing, and maintenance
• Provide operational excellence for control plane services, including enabling tools and definition/refinement of operational processes

Requirements

• 7+ years of non-internship professional software development experience
• 7+ years of programming with at least one software programming language experience
• 7+ 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

• 7+ years of full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations experience
• Experience with networking fundamentals, L2/3/4 technologies, routing and transport protocols
• Background with high availability, high performance, network design and architecture. Technologies such as MPLS, Segment Routing, Traffic Engineering and Mobility.

Benefits

• Base pay ranges from \$151,300/year in the lowest geographic market up to \$261,500/year in the highest geographic market
• Equity, sign-on payments, and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package
• Full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits