Telemetry Data Infrastructure DevOps Software Engineer III
Blue Origin1 day ago
Base Salary
$165k - $231k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design, develop, deploy, and operate secure, high-throughput streaming and batch data pipelines for rocket-engine telemetry.
- Define and implement event-driven architectures using Kafka, Kinesis, or Apache Pulsar, including topic, partitioning, and consumer-group strategies.
- Own search, indexing, time-series, logging, and observability capabilities using Elastic Stack, Grafana, and related tools.
- Establish DevSecOps practices covering CI/CD, infrastructure-as-code, automated testing, secrets management, monitoring, and compliance controls.
- Design multi-resolution telemetry data models, storage strategies, dashboards, and data views.
- Develop and productionize AI/ML and LLM-based approaches for anomaly detection, health monitoring, and automated engine data checks.
- Lead root-cause analysis, corrective actions, performance and capacity optimization, and cost optimization for production data platforms.
- Author and approve technical designs, interface specifications, test procedures, runbooks, and configuration standards.
- Lead technical reviews, mentor junior engineers, provide peer guidance, and represent the data platform across multidisciplinary teams.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree or higher in computer engineering, electrical engineering, computer science, data science, information systems, mathematics, physics, aerospace, or a related field.
- At least 5 years of hands-on experience developing and testing software or data systems.
- Experience as a DevOps, DevSecOps, data, or similar software engineer with ownership of production systems.
- Experience designing and scaling high-volume streaming and batch data pipelines, CI/CD pipelines, event-driven platforms, Elastic Stack systems, Linux shell scripting, Docker, Kubernetes, infrastructure-as-code, TypeScript or Python, and another programming language.
- Experience with databases and SQL, including NoSQL, schema and data-model design, dashboards, data visualization, cloud services, and secure software delivery.
- Experience leading technical reviews and mentoring or providing technical guidance to other engineers.
- Ability to determine methods and approaches with limited direction, communicate technical recommendations, and collaborate with engineering, IT, security, customers, and leadership.
- U.S. citizenship or nationality, U.S. permanent residence, or lawful admission as a refugee or asylee is required.
- Preferred qualifications include time-series databases, stream-processing frameworks, machine-learning models for telemetry, LLMs and AI frameworks, secure DevSecOps tooling, observability tools, data governance, and propulsion or other high-reliability engineering data experience.
- Additional certifications in data engineering, DevSecOps, or cloud services are preferred.
Benefits
- Medical, dental, vision, basic and supplemental life insurance, paid parental leave, short- and long-term disability, a 401(k) match of up to 5%, and an Education Support Program.
- Stock options are available to regular employees working at least 20 hours per week.
- Up to four weeks of paid time off per year based on scheduled hours and up to 14 company-paid holidays.
- Some roles and job levels may be eligible for discretionary benefits and bonuses.
Tech Stack
AnsibleApache FlinkApache KafkaApache SparkAWSC++DockerElasticsearchGoGrafanaInfluxDBJavaKibanaKubernetesLinuxLogstashPrometheusPythonPyTorchScalaSQLTensorFlowTerraformTypeScript
Categories
Data EngineeringDevOps
About Blue Origin
Blue Origin designs and manufactures rocket engines, reusable launch vehicles, and lunar transport systems for commercial and government customers. Its products include the suborbital New Shepard, the in-development New Glenn orbital rocket, BE-4 engines (used on ULA’s Vulcan), and the Blue Moon lander; revenue comes from launch services, engine supply, and space systems contracts, including a NASA Human Landing System award. Founded in 2000 by Jeff Bezos, the company is headquartered in Kent, Washington.