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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In this role, you will design, implement, deploy and operate advanced tools that automate and streamline the development workflow and operations of the Kuiper Customer Terminal embedded systems engineering team. This role focuses on creating tooling to manage production Customer Terminals, automate testing processes, and improve R&D efficiency.
Key job responsibilities
* Build and operate the Customer Terminal Software Development Labs
* Design and operate the Kuiper Customer Terminal test infrastructure
* Manage software updates of Kuiper Customer terminals in development and production
* Collaborate with embedded systems teams to design and develop tooling needs
* Optimize development and testing workflows
* E2E debugging of all Customer Terminal issues on the production Kuiper network
* Design and implement state management and orchestration tools for embedded device testing and development
* Create automated solutions for device state capture, restoration, and comparison
* Develop CLI tools and APIs that enable programmatic control of device states
* Create and maintain documentation for tools and processes
A day in the life
As part of our software engineering team, you will design and implement software used to test and debug embedded software for Kuiper Customer Terminal platforms in R&D and commercial operation. You will work in a collaborative environment with teams in Kuiper Customer Terminal hardware development, software development and operations. You need to be flexible and responsive to fast changing priorities and issues. You will work on Customer Terminal issues on production system platforms.
About the team
The Kuiper Customer Terminal Software Team develops and supports the devices that connect Kuiper subscribers to the Kuiper network. We provide software for the Kuiper Customer Terminal platform, applications and underlying Linux system. We work hand in hand with hardware engineering, product, and operations teams to deliver commercial grade services for our Kuiper subscribers.- 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
- * 3+ years experience with Linux embedded systems
- * 3+ years experience with scripting languages for tooling and automation (Type Script/JAVA Script, Python, Bash)
- * 3+ years experience with CDK and infrastructure as code tools
- * 3+ years experience with integration testing methodologies
- * Experience with state management concepts in software systems
- * Experience with configuration management systems
- * Experience with cloud platforms technology and cloud-native architectures
- * Docker or containerization technologies and virtual machine concepts
- * Understanding of wireless distributed systems
- * Experience with Call Flow debugging
- * Experience with performing software update on a production system- Experience with distributed systems at scale
- * Proficiency in languages suitable for system-level programming (C++, Rust, Go)
- * CI/CD pipeline setup and management
- * Experience with automated testing and continuous integration
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Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $136,100/year in our lowest geographic market up to $235,200/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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