We have space lasers!

Project Kuiper is Amazon’s Low Earth Orbit satellite broadband network. Its mission is to provide low-latency, high-speed broadband connectivity to unserved and underserved communities around the world. Join us in delivering fast, reliable internet to customers and communities around the world.

We are looking for a collaborative and curious Senior Network Development Engineer to build the routing and switching required to scale and operate a global Service Provider network. You will create ground-up processes, solve for complex scenarios, and be part of the team planning and deploying the terrestrial interface to a constellation of 3,236 satellites.

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.


Key job responsibilities
- Continuously strive for operational excellence by seeking to automate away manual processes
- Design robust, scalable, maintainable, and adaptable networks based on customer needs and business requirements
- Select and test network equipment for new initiatives and lifecycle replacement
- Integrate solutions into existing highly available physical and cloud networks
- Develop and document standards for network monitoring metrics, trouble ticket handling, performance dashboards, and incident response
- Mentor engineers and collaborate with other networking, systems development, and software teams
- Provide support and incident response as part of an on-call rotation

A day in the life
A Senior Network Development Engineer in Kuiper Network Services is responsible for designing, developing, testing, deploying, and operating network equipment that enables broadband network systems worldwide. We define standards, select and test platforms, and design for resiliency and scalability. We work in collaboration with other teams for designing and delivering scalable, flexible, low latency, and high throughput network functions. We develop flexible 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 works backward from end-user’s perspective as we design and develop network functions that serve their unique asks.