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
- Identify and solve ambiguous problems, architectural deficiencies, and automation gaps across systems.
- Analyze and troubleshoot high-complexity release processes, driving solutions for root cause analysis.
- Create, implement, and maintain automated solutions that improve the reliability and efficiency of release processes.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define release standards, ensure consistency across LRUs, and provide clear documentation of processes and release notes.
- Provide on-call support for release pipeline stability, responding to and resolving issues as needed.
- Develop metrics and reporting tools to improve transparency, release tracking, and operational visibility.
- Support the implementation of standardized release mechanisms, including versioning, rollback procedures, and on-demand build creation.
A day in the life
In this role, you will start the day by reviewing pipeline health, monitoring release metrics, and identifying any potential issues. You will collaborate with LRU teams to ensure consistency in testing and release standards, address any automation or infrastructure needs, and track release readiness. As you work with cross-functional teams, you will document findings, improve release processes, and implement solutions that stabilize and automate workflows. You will engage with on-call responsibilities as needed, troubleshoot issues, and continuously improve automation to enhance overall release quality and reliability.
About the team
The ANCHOR team (Automated Navigation and Control of Releases) is focused on streamlining and standardizing the release process for Kuiper’s Payload organization. This team manages releases for all Payload LRUs, ensuring consistent release quality, pipeline health, and process efficiency. The team’s charter includes creating release automation, documenting changes, tracking versioned releases, and supporting the transition to a Mono-Repo structure as a long-term strategy. ANCHOR operates autonomously, focused on improving time-to-release, automation reliability, and release transparency.
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
- 4+ years of non-internship professional software development experience
- 2+ years of non-internship design or architecture (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
- Experience programming with at least one software programming language
- Experience troubleshooting and debugging complex technical systems with high ambiguity.
- Experience working within agile, Scrum, or related collaborative workflows.
- Experience in troubleshooting, documenting findings, and driving solutions.
- Experience communicating with executive leadership.
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
- 3+ years of full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations experience
- Knowledge of embedded systems and Unix operating systems.
- Experience analyzing and troubleshooting multi-system environments.
- Experience conducting root cause analysis for high-impact issues.
- Experience with CI/CD pipelines, automation tools, and release management practices.
- Knowledge of build and release processes for large-scale, distributed 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.