Sr System Development Engineer, Leo Enterprise Network Infrastructure

Amazon • Redmond, WA

1d • Onsite

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 Systems Development Engineer responsible for critical infrastructure automations across global Kuiper facilities, this role combines deep technical expertise with automation. The position requires independently handling complex technical issues while developing solutions for large-scale problems across facilities. You'll lead technical projects from conception through completion, mentor junior engineers, and make significant contributions to infrastructure improvements. Beyond day-to-day operations, you'll influence technical direction through rack design collaboration with engineering teams and development of automations and tooling. The role demands both hands-on technical work and strategic thinking to drive operational improvements and maintain system reliability. Success requires creating solutions which scale to meet the global scale or Project Kuiper.

Export Control : This position requires that the candidate selected be a U.S. Citizen in order to comply with U.S. government-imposed requirements related to the nature of the work and/or where it will be performed.

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

Nice To Haves

• Experience with distributed systems at scale
• Experience with AWS or cloud technologies
• Experience in automation and programming

Responsibilities

• Automate Windows infrastructure
• Automate Linux infrastructure
• Design and implement network infrastructure automation
• Create and maintain technical documentation and procedures
• Lead system reliability improvements
• Manage technical changes across environments
• Travel up to 50% of the time
• Ability to work in multiple countries

Benefits

• sign-on payments
• restricted stock units (RSUs)
• 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: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed