Sr. DevOps and Release Validation Engineer - TeraWave RF and Optical Systems
Blue Origin3 days ago
Base Salary
$198k - $277k/yr
Responsibilities
- Architect, build, and operate CI/CD infrastructure for RF and optical systems software, firmware, and FPGA development teams.
- Develop automated build, test, packaging, release, and deployment pipelines.
- Design artifact, versioning, and release-management systems with source-to-production traceability and rollback.
- Build observability tooling to capture test results, metrics, logs, traces, and telemetry and to file detailed trouble tickets.
- Partner with platform, networking, SDN, hardware, 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 Python, Go, or Java.
- Experience building and operating production CI/CD systems such as GitHub Actions, Jenkins, or Argo CD.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
- Must be a U.S. citizen or national, U.S. permanent resident, or lawfully admitted refugee or asylee.
- Preferred: 7 or more years building software infrastructure for large-scale distributed, telecommunications, or mission-critical systems.
- Preferred: experience with Linux-based distributed systems, geographically distributed fleet deployments, staged deployment, configuration consistency, rollback, GitOps, immutable infrastructure, software supply-chain security, secrets management, deployment controls, and network test infrastructure.
Benefits
- Medical, dental, vision, basic and supplemental life insurance, paid parental leave, short- and long-term disability, 401(k) with up to a 5% company match, and an Education Support Program.
- Stock options for all 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.
- Onsite role in the Greater Seattle Area with a temporary remote-work exception while the local site is developed.
- Relocation assistance is available and travel may be required up to 10% of the time.
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.