Project Kuiper aims to increase global broadband access by deploying a constellation of satellites and providing fast, affordable broadband to unserved and underserved communities, thereby closing the digital divide. This role is crucial for building the intelligent cloud backbone that powers AI-driven decision-making across the Kuiper constellation, optimizing network performance, routing, and user experience in real-time.
Requirements
- 5+ years of non-internship professional software development experience
- 5+ years of programming with at least one software programming language experience
- 5+ years of leading design or architecture (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
- 5+ years of full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations experience
Responsibilities
- Architect and implement a scalable, cost-optimized S3-based Data Lakehouse that unifies structured and unstructured data from disparate sources.
- Architect and implement a scalable, cost-performance-optimized OLAP-based analytics layer
- Establish metadata management with automated data classification and lineage tracking.
- Design and enforce standardized data ingestion patterns with built-in quality controls and validation gates.
- Architect a centralized metrics repository that becomes the source of truth for all Kuiper metrics.
- Implement robust data quality frameworks with staging-first policies and automated validation pipelines.
- Design extensible metrics schemas that support complex analytical queries while optimizing for AI retrieval patterns.
Other
- Experience as a mentor, tech lead or leading an engineering team
- 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.
- The base pay for this position ranges from $151,300/year in our lowest geographic market up to $261,500/year in our highest geographic market.
