Software Development Manager, Networking, Leo Software Defined Network

Amazon • Redmond, WA

13d

About The Position

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.

Leo Software Defined Networking (SDN) team will design, implement and operate
the network virtualization stack and SDN control plane signaling. Our scope
spans over beam planning, routing and forwarding through our SDN Controller,
Agents, and Applications that provides a high throughput telecom service
comprised of Low Earth Orbit satellites, customer terminals, gateways, Cloud
services and terrestrial network infrastructure that connects into public and
private networks.

We are looking for a dynamic leader and owner to build out our Skynet Operations
team for an advanced global telecom service via both space and terrestrial
networks. As the manager of this team, you will lead a mix of network engineers
and software engineers to develop novel mechanisms that increase our end-to-end
observability tools deliver high quality, secure and fault tolerant software
used in Low Earth Orbit (LEO) satellites, ground Gateways, and
Consumer/Enterprise class Customer Terminals. You will define the long-term
vision for the team and its products as well as defining the team structure
needed to achieve it. The candidate must have expertise with modern development
practices and network operations and will have demonstrated the capability to
deliver best-in-class software systems that solve some of today's hardest
problems.

You will collaborate with various stakeholders to create the world’s most
innovative products. You will understand operational challenges and existing
blind-spots for network network observability and lead a team of engineers to
develop tools that fill these gaps. You will lead our development and
integration efforts and planning on prototypes and production environments.

In Leo, we believe that our differences makes us stronger. We are committed to
Amazon’s culture of inclusion ingrained in our Leadership Principles, which
encourages team members to seek diverse perspectives, learn and be curious, and
earn trust. We want to foster a culture of collaboration, delivering results and
work/life balance.

Requirements

• 3+ years of engineering team management experience
• 7+ years of engineering experience
• 8+ years of leading the definition and development of multi tier web services experience
• Knowledge of engineering practices and patterns for the full software/hardware/networks development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, certification, and livesite operations
• Experience partnering with product or program management teams

Nice To Haves

• Experience in communicating with users, other technical teams, and senior leadership to collect requirements, describe software product features, technical designs, and product strategy
• Experience in recruiting, hiring, mentoring/coaching and managing teams of Software Engineers to improve their skills, and make them more effective, product software engineers

Responsibilities

• Hire, support and develop a team of exceptional software developers for the Skynet Operations team
• Define the multi-year vision and strategy for the team
• Lead software and network engineer to that will help cross-organizational teams efficiently troubleshoot the network across challenging mobile, space and terrestrial environments.
• Manage and monitor our KPIs for the Leo Networking Service
• Manage the software lifecycle of your deliverables from concept to operations

Benefits

• health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans, EAP, Mental Health Support, Medical Advice Line, Flexible Spending Accounts, Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage)
• 401(k) matching
• paid time off
• parental leave

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Manager
• Education Level: No Education Listed