Software Development Engineer II, Kuiper Network Services

Project Kuiper is an initiative to launch a constellation of low earth orbit satellites that will provide low-latency, high-speed broadband internet connectivity to un-served and under-served communities around the world.

In this role as a SDE-II, you will be part of the core technical team building the network infrastructure for satellite to ground based connectivity.

This opportunity will afford you an exciting SDE leadership role in Project Kuiper that would enable you drive the engineering culture of the team.

Key job responsibilities

• You will collaborate with engineers across the org to gather requirements, design, develop, deploy, and operate across solution pipelines.
• You will work on initiatives building networking functions on AWS infrastructure and help implement best practices for software development.
• You will develop code, build CI / CD pipelines, test automation, and dashboards for monitoring health of systems and data pipelines.
• You will help engineer and build solutions which are required for provisioning, address management, packet inspection and dynamic traffic management for Internet service providers.

Eligibility Requirements :

Due to applicable export control laws and regulations, candidates must be a U.S. citizen or national, U.S. permanent resident (i.

e., current Green Card holder), or lawfully admitted into the U.S. as a refugee or granted asylum.

A day in the life

A SDE in Kuiper 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.

We develop flexible and cost-effective solutions in support of connecting and peering with public and private networks.

About the team

Kuiper 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 Kuiper 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.

We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations :

Redmond, WA, USA

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

• 3+ years of non-internship professional software development experience
• 2+ years of non-internship design or architecture (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
• Experience programming with at least one software programming language
• Bachelor's degree in computer science or related technical discipline with more than 3+ years of experience in building large scale solutions solutions.
• Experience in professional software development, building large-scale, high performance systems and networking solutions in using C++ / Java, Java script, Node.

js, React, Rust in a Linux / Unix environment.

With relevant experience working on system design for multi-tiered or distributed systems in an engineering team.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• 3+ 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
• Experience in Networking system design and development.
• Experience in developing network functions on major cloud systems like AWS, Google Cloud, or Azure.
• Experience in building Capacity, Performance, and Fault Management for large scale high availability systems.
• Foundation in data structures and algorithms, with advanced knowledge of IP communication technologies.
• Experience with network analysis fundamentals and robust troubleshooting skills; specifically, network performance analysis.
• Extensive Unix / Linux based system programming experience (e.g. sockets,files, shared memory) and understanding of Operating systems.
• Expertise in wireless and mobile networking is welcome but is not a mandatory requirement.
30+ days ago