Senior Software Development Engineer, DevOps and Network Software Infrastructure
Blue Origin24 hours ago
Base Salary
$198k - $277k/yr
Responsibilities
- Architect, build, and operate CI/CD infrastructure for networking, SDN, MAC, platform, and ground software teams.
- Develop automated build, test, packaging, release, and deployment pipelines for geographically distributed points of presence, gateways, and edge systems.
- Build infrastructure-as-code and configuration-management frameworks for reproducible deployments across cloud, data center, and laboratory environments.
- Develop integration and test environments using network emulation, topology simulation, traffic generation, and failure-injection testing.
- Design artifact, versioning, and release-management systems with source-to-production traceability and rollback capabilities.
- Build observability tooling for metrics, logs, traces, network telemetry, deployment health, alerting, and automated diagnostics.
- Partner with SDN, ground networking, platform, security, and systems engineering teams to define deployment and validation requirements.
- Improve engineering velocity and production reliability through automation, developer tooling, and standardized deployment patterns.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or a related technical field.
- At least 5 years of software engineering, DevOps, platform, infrastructure, or site reliability experience.
- Software development experience in one or more of Python, Go, Rust, or Java.
- Experience building and operating production CI/CD systems such as GitHub Actions, Jenkins, or Argo CD.
- Experience with infrastructure automation using Terraform, Ansible, Kubernetes, Helm, or equivalent configuration-management systems.
- Preferred: 7 or more years building software infrastructure for large-scale distributed, telecommunications, or mission-critical systems.
- Preferred: experience supporting Linux-based distributed systems and diagnosing failures across applications, networks, and infrastructure.
- Preferred: understanding of IP networking, routing protocols, IP/MPLS, Segment Routing, software-defined networking, and network automation.
- Preferred: experience deploying software across geographically distributed fleets with staged deployment, configuration consistency, and rollback.
- Preferred: experience with GitOps, immutable infrastructure, software supply chain security, secrets management, and deployment controls.
- Preferred: experience building network test infrastructure using traffic generators, virtual topologies, emulators, simulators, or digital twins.
Benefits
- Medical, dental, vision, basic and supplemental life insurance, paid parental leave, short- and long-term disability, a 401(k) with company matching up to 5%, and an Education Support Program.
- Stock options for regular employees working at least 20 hours per week.
- Up to four weeks of paid time off per year based on weekly scheduled hours and up to 14 company-paid holidays.
- Employees may be eligible for role- and level-dependent benefits and bonuses, subject to company discretion and change.
Categories
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.