Systems Development Engineer - Ground Infrastructure, Project Kuiper

Project Kuiper is an initiative to increase global broadband access through a constellation of 3,236 satellites in low Earth orbit (LEO). Its mission is to bring fast, affordable broadband to unserved and underserved communities around the world. Project Kuiper will help close the digital divide by delivering fast, affordable broadband to a wide range of customers, including consumers, businesses, government agencies, and other organizations operating in places without reliable connectivity.

As a System Development Engineer, you will build tools and processes for monitoring, operating, and scaling ground infrastructure to millions of users around the globe. Use and enhance the tools you and the team develop. Using metrics, scalability in design, and continuous improvement, you will automate repetitive processes to eliminate outages and enable high availability of the ground infrastructure.

This position may require access to information, technology, or hardware that is subject to export control laws and regulations, including the Export Administration Regulations (EAR) and the International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR). Employment in this position is contingent upon obtaining any required export licenses or other approvals from the United States government. As such, the successful candidate must be eligible to obtain any necessary export licenses or approvals based on their nationality, citizenship, and any other factors considered by the applicable export control regulations.


Key job responsibilities
- Continuously strive for operational excellence by seeking to automate away manual processes
- Ensure that all systems are designed to be robust, scalable, maintainable and adaptable as the service scales and evolves over time
- Build and maintain critical infrastructure, tools and operating procedures to report on the health of ground infrastructure.
- Integrate with other existing systems such as trouble ticketing, dashboards, and metrics tools and services
- Measure and improve the performance and availability of the Kuiper Ground Infrastructure
- Provide critical operations support and incident response for the service, while taking part in an on-call rotation

A day in the life
Project Kuiper is looking for a System Development Engineer for Ground Infrastructure Operations. If you have an understanding of software, systems, networking, and hardware and how they interact, your skills are needed.

Work with business partners, leadership and other engineers, influence and lead the design of systems. We need your ideas and your ability to take initiative, innovate, and produce results as we continuously improve the customer experience.

Day to day work will vary between automation or other scripting work, operational excellence initiatives, design meetings, coordination with engineering teams and external partners such as AWS Frontier, Telco carriers and Teleports, and/or oncall responsibilities.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

- Non-internship professional software development experience
- Administrative experience in networking, storage systems, operating systems and hands-on systems engineering experience
- Designing or architecting (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

- Experience working in an Agile environment using the Scrum methodology
- Curious to learn in depth about both technology and our customers
- A curious self-starter with a proven track record of diving into unknown territory, learning new concepts, and pushing your comfort zone.
- An effective multi-tasker who navigates a fast-paced, deadline-driven environment with grace and efficiency.