Software Dev Manager III, Kuiper Data Science Platform

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.

The Role
As a Software Dev Manager, you’ll be leading us in making critical and time sensitive decisions that impact customers. You’ll use your machine learning expertise to build solutions that can scale and solve the business problem, and your engineering experience to build systems that take those solutions to production; it's an exciting opportunity to apply data science to help improve fraud detection accuracy, inference, and customer experience monitoring activity. It’s fast paced, data driven, and impactful.

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
• Build and lead engineering teams developing cloud-native applications for Kuiper's Data Streaming Bus
• Own the technical vision and continuous improvement of the service
• Ensure high availability and reliability of mission-critical systems supporting real time data processing, monitoring, and streaming needs
• Drive innovation in customer experience while maintaining enterprise-grade security and compliance
• Collaborate cross-functionally to translate business requirements into technical solutions

A day in the life
You will work with Product Management, Business, and other Engineering Stakeholders on defining the roadmap for Kuiper's data platform. You will own solving customer problems and building software that is flexible for many different customer use cases and countries, to support Kuiper's global footprint.

About the team
Kuiper Data Science Platform team build services to ingest, transform, and aggregate data from various devices in Kuiper Network, and auto detect, diagnose, and resolve issues. We use ML technology to monitor customer experience and prevent fraud and abuse.

Basic Qualifications

- 3+ years of engineering team management experience
- 7+ years of engineering experience
- 8+ years of leading the definition and development of multi tier web services experience
- Knowledge of engineering practices and patterns for the full software/hardware/networks development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, certification, and livesite operations
- Experience partnering with product or program management teams

Preferred Qualifications

- Experience in communicating with users, other technical teams, and senior leadership to collect requirements, describe software product features, technical designs, and product strategy
- Experience in recruiting, hiring, mentoring/coaching and managing teams of Software Engineers to improve their skills, and make them more effective, product software engineers

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Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $166,400/year in our lowest geographic market up to $287,700/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.