Job Details
Posted date: Sep 02, 2025
Location: Redmond, WA
Estimated salary: $176,450
Range: $129,300 - $223,600
Description
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.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
In this role, you will design, implement, and deploy reliable software infrastructure and automation to support embedded software development and testing of Kuiper Customer Terminals. You will design and develop the tooling to develop production software for Kuiper Customer Terminals, automate pipeline testing processes, and tools to improve R&D efficiency.
Key job responsibilities
Build and operate the Customer Terminal software development labs
Debugging, diagnosing, and troubleshooting, production software and pipeline issues
Developing Automated Tests: write code to automate testing processes, creating infrastructure frameworks and tools to improve pipeline development and testing efficiency and coverage.
Designing Test Strategies: contribute to the design of test plans, test cases, and test strategies, develop the testing infrastructure ensuring comprehensive testing throughout the software development lifecycle/pipeline
Troubleshooting and Debugging: analyze automated test results, identify issues, and collaborate with developers to resolve defects.
Collaboration and Communication: work closely with developers, product managers, and other stakeholders, communicating technical information and contributing to a collaborative team environment
Develop software in Python
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 perform pipeline builds, properly test and deploy Kuiper Customer Terminal products. You will work in a collaborative environment with teams in Kuiper Customer terminal hardware and software development. You need to be flexible and responsive to fast changing priorities and issues.
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, product, and operations teams to deliver commercial grade services for our Kuiper subscribers.
Qualifications
- 3+ years of non-internship professional software development testing experience- 3+ years of test automation frameworks and tools building experience
- Experience programming with at least one modern language such as Java, C++, or C# including object-oriented design
- Solid understanding of software testing methodologies, functional, performance, and security testing
- Experience debugging, diagnosing, and troubleshooting complex, production software and pipeline issues
- Experience with the design, set-up and testing of software/firmware integrated into hardware systems (embedded systems)
Extended Qualifications
- Knowledge of overall system architecture, scalability, reliability, and performance in a database environment- Experience with security in service-oriented architectures and web services
- Experience developing or testing networking/communication hardware systems
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Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $129,300/year in our lowest geographic market up to $223,600/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 https://www.aboutamazon.com/workplace/employee-benefits. This position will remain posted until filled. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.
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