Amazon Leo is Amazon’s low Earth orbit satellite network. Our mission is to deliver fast, reliable internet connectivity to customers beyond the reach of existing networks. From individual households to schools, hospitals, businesses, and government agencies, Amazon Leo will serve people and organizations operating in locations without reliable connectivity.

Export Control Requirement:

This position requires that the candidate selected be a U.S. Citizen in order to comply with U.S. government-imposed requirements related to the nature of the work and/or where it will be performed.

As a Network Development Manager, you will lead a high-performing team delivering production-ready network implementations across Leo's facilities. You'll manage vendor relationships, enterprise and cloud network infrastructure, and ensure scalability supporting rapid growth. You will drive integration of advanced networking technologies into robust, scalable architectures while establishing best practices, SOPs, and automation frameworks ensuring operational efficiency and reliability. Collaborating cross-functionally with engineering, security, and program teams, you'll uphold the highest standards while identifying risks, removing bottlenecks, and influencing technical roadmaps aligned with business objectives.
Join a mission-driven, inclusive culture that welcomes bold ideas and empowers you to take full ownership, driving them from concept to completion while shaping the future of satellite-based connectivity on a truly global scale.

Key job responsibilities
Operational Excellence: Drive operational excellence by creating efficient processes and procedures for daily tasks and projects. Establish and enforce network standards and policies while ensuring full compliance. Partner closely with internal customers to address their needs and resolve issues promptly.

Network Measurement Drive quality into reported metrics to focus efforts on highest-ROI areas, including issue tracking, network capacity, vendor equipment/failure analysis, and network performance.
Performance Management/Team Health: Own all facets of performance and career management. Conduct regular one-on-ones with all team members, providing both technical and soft-skill mentoring to maintain a world-class organization.
Incident/Change Management: Develop and improve incident and change management within Networking. Drive improvements to existing tools and processes while providing feedback on new practices to scale with Amazon's rapid platform and customer base expansion.
Automation: Drive the team to analyze daily operations and identify automation opportunities. Champion integration of AI and machine learning to enhance network automation and operations.

A day in the life
You'll lead a team of engineers supporting Leo's enterprise network, balancing strategic planning with hands-on problem solving—unblocking your team, aligning priorities across organizations. When critical outages arise, you serve as the escalation point, leading root cause analysis to restore services swiftly.
Driving innovation is essential—you identify automation opportunities and encourage the team to eliminate repetitive tasks. Through regular one-on-ones, you coach engineers on technical growth, set performance goals, and refine capacity plans to support future scaling.

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related field
• 8+ years of engineering experience
• 8+ years of managing teams experience
• 3+ years of past experience with network engineering either as a manager or individual contributor.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience presenting root cause analysis and error correction from operational events to senior management
• Experience developing operational metrics
• Knowledge of network design, protocols and troubleshooting
• Experience representing your team or technical area to senior management
• Experience in communicating with users, other technical teams, and senior leadership to collect requirements, describe software product features, technical designs, and product strategy

Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status.

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The base salary range for this position is listed below. Your Amazon package will include sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience, qualifications, and location. Amazon also offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans, EAP, Mental Health Support, Medical Advice Line, Flexible Spending Accounts, Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage), 401(k) matching, paid time off, and parental leave. Learn more about our benefits at https://amazon.jobs/en/benefits.

USA, WA, Bellevue - 175,100.00 - 236,900.00 USD annually