Project Kuiper is an initiative to launch a constellation of Low Earth Orbit satellites that will provide low-latency, high-speed broadband network connectivity to unserved and underserved communities around the world.

As a Software Development Manager (SDM) you will be responsible for owning the team’s roadmap and ensuring the strategic visions is executed. You will be responsible for gathering customer requirements, project prioritization, software quality, and system delivery. You will help mentor, develop, and the guide the engineers responsible for the system development.

As a SDM, you will lead and work with a talented team to innovate and deliver distributed software systems responsible for satellite constellation testing at an unprecedented scale. Your team will develop the services, infrastructure, features, interfaces, and integrations for the services to be used by engineering and operations teams across Kuiper to simulate and test mission objectives.

You will need to clearly create, manage project roadmaps and timelines, while proactively managing risks. You will participate in executive level communication, forge strong partnerships across the board and effective peer level/team level communication. You will have opportunities to work on both complex roadmaps and interact with business stakeholders directly. To be successful in this role, you should be comfortable gathering requirements across the many stakeholders with complex and frequently unknown solutions, creating and maintaining technical project plans, and diving into the technical details to understand the nuances and complexities involved. Your work will interface with various subsystems within Project Kuiper and Amazon.

The ideal candidate will be detail oriented, an excellent communicator, have strong organizational skills, able to work independently, can juggle multiple tasks at once, and ensure deliverables meet requirements and deadlines. You should have strong knowledge software engineering practices, enjoy mentoring and developing the engineers that work on your team.

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, lead and manage a diverse team of engineers .
- Provide technical guidance for the team in addressing projects with broad scope and limited definition to ensure test and design objectives are met.
- Define team growth expectations and organization strategy.
- Coordinate internal and external resources to ensure team and project success.
- Communicate fluidly across a variety of teams to identify product risks and how they will be addressed to ensure mission success.
- Juggle multiple priorities while optimizing the system and schedule.
- Apply critical thinking in complex situations and ambiguous environments

About the team
The team builds and maintains the software services responsible for building and managing critical configuration about Kuiper satellites.