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# Senior Technical Program Manager, Terrestrial Networking Team

- **Company:** Amazon.com, Inc.
- **Location:** Austin, TX, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $171,000.0 - $231,400.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Computer Networks, Firmware, Internet Services, Software Engineering, Computer Networking Systems, Information Technology
- **Published:** September 30, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.jobmonkeyjobs.com/career/28065601/Senior-Technical-Program-Manager-Terrestrial-Networking-Team-Texas-Austin-7375

## About the Role

8+ years of technical program management working directly with software engineering teams experience

 - 3+ years of project management disciplines including scope, schedule, budget, quality, along with risk and critical path management experience
 - 3+ years of software development experience, Bachelor's degree in engineering, computer science or equivalent

## Description

In this role you will:

 - Collaborate with engineering leaders to create project plans for Terrestrial Networking software development.
 - Work with product/program management to ensure that development meets schedule, cost, and quality requirements.
 - Drive engineering project execution, make technical trade-offs, track and report on status, and resolve blocking issues.
 - Collaborate with architecture, hardware, software, firmware teams on ensuring cross-functional deliverables are identified and tracked.
 - Establish mechanisms to manage scrums, tasks, budgets, dashboards, schedule and overall delivery for the Satellite Payload and Data Plane software
 - Map dependencies and track accuracy of plans and technical developments for all major milestones

A day in the life
In this role, you will build and scale Project Leo's Satellite Payload and Data Plane software development programs. You are accountable for creating and working the complex multi-subsystem program plan for the development, test and delivery of Leo's Satellite Payload system and Data Plane, and their integration with rest of Leo system for delivering an end-to-end network solution with an exceptional quality of experience for our customers.

About the team
The Team is responsible for Architecture, design and delivering and end to end Networking systems for both constellation and ground, as well as the services that utilize the network to delivery last mile and back-haul internet services.


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