Amazon Leo 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 — from individual households to schools, hospitals, businesses, and government agencies. The Leo Software Defined Networking (SDN) team designs, implements and operates the network virtualization stack and SDN control plane signaling. Our scope spans over beam planning, routing, and forwarding through our SDN Controller, Agents, and Applications that provides a high throughput telecom service comprised of Low Earth Orbit satellites, customer terminals, gateways, cloud services and terrestrial network infrastructure that connects into public and private networks. As the manager of this team, you will define the long-term vision for the team and its products as well as hiring and organizing to succeed. The candidate must have expertise with modern development practices and network observability management, and will have demonstrated the capability to deliver best-in-class software systems that solve some of today's hardest networking problems. 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 Organizational Leadership * Lead a multi-layered organization of 50+ software engineers, managers, TPMs with end-to-end scope * Build a high-performance engineering culture grounded in ownership, velocity, and operational excellence * Provide career development for a group of exceptional software developers End-to-End Technical Ownership * Manage the software lifecycle of deliverables from concept to operations, encompassing our networking software deployed in the Cloud and telemetry data published from satellites, gateways, and customer terminals. * Own and drive execution of the multi-year vision and strategy for the team * Develop new network observability features that offer improved quality and functionality. * Lead cross-organizational integration and troubleshooting initiatives across challenging mobile, space and terrestrial environments. * Define long-term architecture and ensure scalability, reliability, and maintainability across product generations Operational Excellence * Define, manage, and monitor KPIs for your systems * Define mechanisms and processes to ensure predictable/high-quality software deliveries, and continuous improvement * Translate ambiguous product concepts into clear, executable engineering plans Cross-Functional System Design * Partner with satellite, gateway, network planning and commerce and product teams to define system architecture, requirements, and roadmap.