Senior Backbone Network Business Developer, Americas, Backbone Network Development
Amazon· Backbone Network Development
Denver, Atlanta, Austin, Arlington, Herndon, Bellevue, Seattle$155.4k - $210.2kFull-timePosted 1mo ago
About the role
Senior Backbone Network Developer to drive commercial and technical vendor strategy for Americas backbone network, focusing on planning, developing, and acquiring network capacity (dark fiber, wavelengths, submarine cable) to support AWS global infrastructure growth.
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
- - 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 experienceVendor managementFinancial modelingProcurement of dark fiber and wavelengths
Benefits
- base salary within listed regional ranges (USA: CO Denver; GA Atlanta; TX Austin; VA Arlington; VA Herndon; WA Bellevue; WA Seattle) with sign-on payments and RSUs.
- comprehensive health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription), life insurance, EAP, mental health support, FSA, adoption and surrogacy reimbursement, etc.
- 401(k) matching, paid time off, parental leave.
Last updated Oct 25, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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