Network Development Engineer - Kuiper Ground Infrastructure Operations, Project Kuiper

Amazon.com • Bellevue, WA

287d • $127,400 - $212,800

About The Position

Project Kuiper is Amazon's low Earth orbit satellite broadband network. Its mission is to deliver fast, reliable internet to customers and communities around the world, and we've designed the system with the capacity, flexibility, and performance to serve a wide range of customers, from individual households to schools, hospitals, businesses, government agencies, and other organizations operating in locations without reliable connectivity. As a Network Development Engineer, you will collaborate with Systems Development Engineers to invent, design and build innovative tools, while defining processes for monitoring, operating, and scaling ground network infrastructure to support millions of users worldwide. You'll utilize and refine the tools you and your team develop, focusing on metrics, scalability, and continuous improvement to automate repetitive tasks, eliminate outages and enable high availability of the ground infrastructure.

Requirements

• 4+ years of major internet routing protocols experience
• 3+ years of working in a Linux/Unix environment experience
• 1+ years of automation scripting using Python, Bash, Shell and/or Perl experience

Nice To Haves

• Experience with AWS services
• Curious to learn in depth about both technology and our customers
• A curious self-starter with a proven track record of diving into unknown territory, learning new concepts, and pushing your comfort zone

Responsibilities

• Continuously strive for operational excellence by seeking to automate away manual processes
• Work closely with our network, systems & software engineering teams to ensure fast, smooth roll-out of new designs and products
• Design and develop tools to measure and improve the performance and availability of the Kuiper Ground Infrastructure
• Drive operational excellence projects to improve network performance and reliability
• Provide critical operations support and incident response for the service, while taking part in an on-call rotation
• Network SME for the operations of the Kuiper's ground gateway's and backbone connectivity

Benefits

• Base pay ranges from $127,400/year to $212,800/year depending on geographic market
• Equity, sign-on payments, and other forms of compensation may be provided
• Full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Industry: General Merchandise Retailers
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees