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.
Export Control Requirement: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.
Key job responsibilities
Have you wanted an opportunity to develop the core wireless and networking for an advanced global telecom service spanning both space and terrestrial networks?
Have you wondered what it takes to run software across multiple devices all working to enable end to end network access?
Amazon Leo's SDN Agent team is responsible for managing all the device network plans.
This service works in coordination with high throughput telecom service using a system of LEO satellites, customer terminals, gateways, cloud services, and terrestrial network infrastructure that connect into public and private networks.
For this role, you will:
- Be the Single threaded owner for all Agent and device network health - Drive operational improvements to achieve 99.99+ network availability
- Implement highly-available software that will drive networking control plane operation on physical and remote nodes
- Define and automate processes used for software development, implementation, testing, and maintenance
- Manage network software network nodes written in C and Rust A day in the life
This is an opportunity to make history by owning a key network component for the space age of networking.
You assist in designing, building and operating a massive satellite constellation and terrestrial network.
We interact with the satellite ground control services, the customer engagement systems and monitoring services to constantly fine-tune our network and deliver a high quality service to our customers.
You will be responsible to build the best network for our customers.
About the team
The SDN Control Plane team is building the brain driving the Leo Network.
Innovation is in our DNA and we tackle the problems presented by a dynamic network at global scale.
It is our responsibility to ensure that the network works and our customer has a one-of-a-kind experience using our service.
Our team will design, implement and operate the control plane 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.