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Senior Application Engineer, Kuiper Enterprise Technology - Low Earth Orbit Satellites
Senior Application Engineer, Kuiper Enterprise Technology - Low Earth Orbit Satellites-August 2024
Bellevue
Aug 27, 2025
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About Senior Application Engineer, Kuiper Enterprise Technology - Low Earth Orbit Satellites

  Description

  Have you ever wanted to be part of a team who is building industry changing technology? Amazon’s 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.

  You will manage Kuiper's Atlassian suite for our commercial and government sectors. You will use AWS products and DevOps patterns to build the next generation of remote systems management tools to support productivity applications such as Confluence, Jira, Bitbucket and Bamboo.

  We are looking for a motivated and autonomous builder to deliver results to our customers. This is a hands-on position where your daily activities will range from strategic planning to new system development to supporting the customers that depend on our services. Deliver consistent, well-defined results in an agile systems development workflow.

  Key job responsibilities

  Subject Matter Expert on all workflows end-to-end, customizations, marketplace apps, management and configuration in Atlassian

  Identifying dependencies in support of delivery, release, and change management

  Partner with all cross-functional teams to determine needs

  Develop customized solutions, including design, implementation, quality control, end-to-end testing plans in multiple environments (dev/test/stage/prod), troubleshooting and bug fixing

  Maintain the security and data integrity of the Atlassian implementation.

  Install, configure and administration of the Atlassian implementation

  Own stability of the applications to Engineering standards including, incident management, monitoring, alerting and incident resolution for all aspects of the Atlassian products

  Troubleshoot application issues and add-on integration issues in the Atlassian implementation

  Collaborate with cross functional stakeholders to ensure changes to implementations and integrations are gracefully handled

  Determine ways to optimize/improve setup and workflows, as well as identify where functionality may or may not meet user requests

  Develop metrics dashboards and advanced filters to provide end-users and business leadership with meaningful operational/performance metrics and status reports

  Use Atlassian REST APIs to develop one-off solutions for integrations with other tools, automate manual processes, data migration routines and extract data for reporting and analytics purposes

  User management and support for users, manage system access across groups to ensure compliance, and maintain best practices

  Create and manage security schemes, custom fields and configurations

  Install, manage and administer add-ons, plugins, and extensions for Atlassian Cloud products

  Develop process workflows for Jira including field configurations, screen schemes, permission schemes and notification schemes

  Research, Diagnose, and Monitor performance bottlenecks

  Act as a mentor to less technical stakeholders with best practices

  Write documentation and provide technical training for cross-functional teams

  Export Control Requirements: Due to the need to access certain federal controlled information, you must be a U.S. citizen for consideration.

  A day in the life

  The Kuiper Enterprise Technology organization is looking for an experienced Application Engineer with infrastructure and development background. We are using AWS products to host our services and build controlled environments. If you are passionate about automating large-scale cloud infrastructure deployments, keep reading.

  As a Application Engineer will be expected to influence the business and technology direction of the team. Have the ability to impact the goals of not only your direct team but partner teams and stakeholders as well. As an Application Engineer on the team, you will be counted on to define and apply the standards for engineering, test, and operational excellence best practices for your team.

  About the team

  Here at Amazon, we embrace our differences. We are committed to furthering our culture of inclusion. Amazon has ten employee-led affinity groups, reaching 40,000 employees in over 190 chapters globally. We have innovative benefit offerings, and host annual and ongoing learning experiences. Amazon’s culture of inclusion is reinforced within our 16 Leadership Principles, which remind team members to seek diverse perspectives, learn and be curious, and earn trust.

  At Amazon, our mission is to be the most customer-centric company on Earth. To get there, we need exceptionally talented, bright and driven people. We're dedicated to supporting new team members. Our team has a broad mix of experience levels and Amazon tenures, and we’re building an environment that celebrates knowledge sharing and mentorship.

  We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations:

  Bellevue, WA, USA

  Basic Qualifications

  3+ years of programming with at least one modern language such as C++, C#, Java, Python, Golang, PowerShell, Ruby experience

  3+ years of non-internship professional software development experience

  2+ years of designing or architecting (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience

  4+ years of systems development

  4+ years of deploying and operating in a Linux/Unix environment experience

  2+ years of systems design, software development, operations, automation, and process improvement experience

  Experience leading the design, build and deployment of complex and performant (reliable and scalable) software solutions in production

  Preferred Qualifications

  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 taking a leading role in building complex software or computing infrastructure that has been successfully delivered to customers

  AWS DevOps certification or equivalent experience AWS Solutions Architect certification or equivalent experience

  AWS Networking certification or equivalent experience

  Amazon is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status. For individuals with disabilities who would like to request an accommodation, please visit https://www.amazon.jobs/en/disability/us.

  Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $108,400/year in our lowest geographic market up to $210,800/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. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.

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