Sr. Software Development Engineer, Leo Network Services - Network Orchestration

Amazon•Redmond, WA

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. A SDE in Leo Network Services is responsible for designing, developing, testing, deploying, and operating services that enable broadband networks systems worldwide. We write code, debug, and create the world's most innovative products. We work in collaboration with other teams for designing and delivering scalable, flexible, low latency, and high throughput network functions. Leo 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 Leo subscriber at activation from address assignment and name resolution to secure and programmable network functions. The Network Services team walks backward from end-user's perspective as we design and develop network functions that serve their unique asks.

Requirements

Deep understanding of TCP/IP networking fundamentals, including IPv4/IPv6 routing, subnetting, and network topology design
Familiarity with implementing and deploying network routing protocols such as OSPF, ISIS, BGP, or similar IGPs/EGPs in dynamic topologies
Experience with the operational characteristics of link-state and distance-vector routing protocols at scale
Experience with network simulation, testing, and validation tools for routing protocol verification
5+ years of non-internship professional software development experience
5+ years of programming with at least one software programming language experience
5+ 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

5+ years of full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations experience
Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent
Proficiency in systems programming languages (C, C++, or Rust) for performance-critical networking code
Familiarity with embedded systems and resource-constrained environments
Experience with satellite communications, mesh networks, or dynamic topology networks

Responsibilities

You will collaborate with engineers across the org to gather requirements, design, develop, deploy, and operate across solution pipelines.
You will engineer and build solutions which are required for provisioning, address management, packet inspection and dynamic traffic management of the Amazon LEO network.
You will work on initiatives building networking functions across AWS infrastructure and embedded devices.