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Senior Backbone Network Business Developer, Americas, Backbone Network Development

Amazon· Backbone Network Development
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Denver, CO, Atlanta, GA, Austin, TX, Arlington, VA, Seattle, WA$155.4k - $210.2kFull-timePosted 6mo ago

About the role

Senior Backbone Network Developer responsible for driving commercial and technical vendor strategy to develop and scale AWS backbone network in the Americas, focusing on wavelengths, dark fiber, submarine cable capacity, and cost-efficient network topology.

Responsibilities

  • Serve as a key member of the Americas Backbone Network Development team helping to drive overall Network Infrastructure strategy.
  • Execute the strategic backbone network plans and provide regular progress updates.
  • Identify suppliers and develop technical and commercial solutions that solve for wavelengths, dark fibre and submarine cable capacity.
  • Organize, track, and coordinate with vendors and internal teams to deliver new backbone capacity for Amazon.
  • Work with network planners and engineers to ensure the most efficient and cost effective network topology is delivered.
  • Work closely with finance partners, collaborating on budget creation, business case development, deal inspection, and supplier invoicing.
  • Track overall telecoms market trends and developments in terms of vendor technologies, coverage, cost and deal structures.
  • Manage the suppliers onboarding, relationship, performance, and service quality.
  • Anticipate bottlenecks, manage risk and escalations, and balance the business needs versus technical constraints.

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, mathematics or equivalent, or 6+ years of Information Technology (IT) experience
  • Candidates should have 10+ years telecommunications industry experience in a similar environment.
  • Candidates must have an experience in managing suppliers/customers or partners.
  • Ability to create complex financial models to understand business impacts of various network solutions is required.
  • Procurement and negotiations of dark fiber and wavelengths.

Skills

Required:Telecommunications industry experience

Benefits

  • Health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription) and life insurance options.
  • 401(k) matching, paid time off, parental leave.
  • RSUs and sign-on payments included in compensation.
Last updated Oct 25, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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