Sr.SoftwareDevEngineer,KuiperAIFoundations

Project Kuiper is an initiative to increase global broadband access through a constellation of 3,236 satellites in low Earth orbit (LEO). Its mission is to bring fast, affordable broadband to unserved and underserved communities around the world. Project Kuiper will help close the digital divide by delivering fast, affordable broadband to a wide range of customers, including consumers, businesses, government agencies, and other organizations operating in places without reliable connectivity. The Role This role is for a Software Engineer who will design, implement, and operate globally distributed systems that enable Kuiper to achieve low single-digit-second query responses within a near real-time analytics layer or lakehouse, and to support agentic AI capabilities on top. You’ll build these systems using the latest AWS technologies and best-in-industry software engineering practices. 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 - 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. - Develop intelligent orchestration for metrics genera