Sr. System Development Engineer, GSE Automation, Amazon Leo

Amazon•Kirkland, WA

About The Position

Amazon Leo 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. We are hiring a Sr. System Development Engineer to develop and integrate hardware and software for satellite production manufacturing. This is a highly collaborative position that interfaces with Project Kuiper production, engineering, and IT infrastructure teams. This is a fast-paced, intellectually challenging position. You will work with leaders in multiple technology areas across Amazon Leo to define and develop automation systems to meet the program needs. In addition, you will be responsible for project management, cost estimates and scheduling. You’ll have relentlessly high standards for yourself and everyone you work with, and you’ll be constantly looking for ways to improve your product’s performance, quality and cost. We want individuals who are ready for this challenge and want to reach beyond what is possible today. The Ground Support Equipment (GSE) team is responsible for designing and commissioning automation and tooling for Amazon Leo production. This in-house team of engineers work directly with satellite designers, production teams, and manufacturing engineers to solve unique problems in high-volume satellite production.

Requirements

Experience leading the design, automation, deployment, and support of large-scale infrastructure
Experience programming with at least one modern language such as Python, Ruby, Golang, Java, C++, C#, Rust
Experience with Linux/Unix
Experience with CI/CD pipelines build processes
Experience defining system architectures and exploring technical feasibility tradeoffs
Experience in mentoring, leading, or managing more junior engineers
Experience writing technical documents, project plans and progress reports to leadership and to stakeholders

Nice To Haves

Experience with distributed systems at scale

Responsibilities

Manufacturing automation development: The Sr. SysDE will develop automated manufacturing applications in the Kuiper SCADA (Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition) ecosystem.
Ownership and collaboration: The Sr. SysDE is responsible for learning and addressing the business needs through interaction with partner teams. The Sr. SysDE will generate requirements collaboratively, document and collect customer feedback on the design, then implement and iterate. The Sr. SysDE is a single-threaded owner, responsible for delivering functioning applications to production, providing support for startup activities, and participating in an on-call rotation for production downtime escalations.
Security and compliance: Produce system architecture and design documents for end-user, front line support, and security review purposes. Ensure that system integrations comply with internal IT and Security standards, with code that is well-documented and version controlled.