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.
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This Systems Development Engineer role focuses on supporting essential engineering services including Siemens ASIC, EDM, and Team Center that enable satellite research and development. You'll manage both cloud and physical infrastructure, with primary responsibility for RHEL Linux systems that run critical design and manufacturing applications. The position requires hands-on management of server deployments, system maintenance, and infrastructure improvements while ensuring consistent uptime for engineering teams. Working directly with stakeholders, you'll gather requirements, plan improvements, and implement changes through formal change control processes. Success in this role demands strict adherence to change management procedures to maintain system stability, including proper documentation, stakeholder approval, and scheduled maintenance windows. You'll balance urgent system needs with controlled changes while maintaining both cloud and physical environments supporting satellite development operations.
Key job responsibilities
- Manage RHEL Linux systems supporting engineering tools
- Maintain uptime for critical design and manufacturing applications
- Implement and manage cloud infrastructure
- Handle physical server deployments and maintenance
- Create and enforce change management procedures
- Work directly with engineering teams to understand requirements
- Plan and execute system improvements
- Document technical processes and configurations
- Develop Automation
- Disaster Recover and Business Continuity Planning
- Design and implement technical solutions
- Service monitoring
A day in the life
Your day begins reviewing system alerts and performance metrics across the Siemens ASIC, EDM, and Team Center environments. You'll handle RHEL Linux system maintenance while coordinating with engineering teams to schedule critical updates through the change management process. Time is split between managing physical server infrastructure and cloud resources, often troubleshooting application performance issues that impact satellite design work. You'll participate in planning meetings to understand upcoming engineering needs, then translate those requirements into infrastructure improvements. Throughout the day, you'll handle urgent support requests from design teams, implement approved changes during designated maintenance windows, and document system modifications. You'll write and test automation scripts to improve system reliability, while maintaining backup and recovery procedures for critical engineering data. The role requires constant prioritization between immediate operational needs and long-term infrastructure planning, all while ensuring proper change control procedures are followed to maintain stability of these essential engineering systems.- Experience in automating, deploying, and supporting 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- Bachelor's degree
- Experience working with design tools
- Program Management Skills
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Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $116,300/year in our lowest geographic market up to $201,200/year in our highest geographic market. Pay is based on a number of factors including market location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Amazon is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered, equity, sign-on payments, and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package, in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits. For more information, please visit
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