Software Development Engineer, Kuiper Sim Foundations Team

Project Leo is an initiative to launch a constellation of Low Earth Orbit satellites that will provide low-latency, high-speed broadband connectivity to unserved and underserved communities around the world. 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 This role of a Software Engineer will design, implement, and operate globally available distributed systems geared towards giving Leo the ability to operate within realistic virtual Leo environments at scale. You’ll build systems using the latest AWS technologies, leveraging best-in-industry software engineering practices. For this role, you will: - Take responsibility for designing and delivering modern, flexible, scalable solutions to complex optimization problems for operating and planning satellite constellations - Work with our peer teams and customers to design suitable software systems to fulfill the mission needs. - Write code for production cloud native software systems in Java. - Utilize AWS and other Amazon technologies to build high-available software services. - Help on-board and mentor new team members. - Lead technical roadmap definition efforts and decide what software services to build. - Define and automate processes used for software development, implementation, testing, and maintenance - Provide operational excellence and define/refine operational processes A day in the life This role is for a Software Development Engineer who will build new cloud services and APIs that facilitates and orchestrates simulation of software on Kuiper devices such as satellites, ground gateways, and customer terminals. You will be building low-latency, highly scalable architecture that are critical to getting high quality internet service to customers.