Software Update & Deployment Engineer III - Project Sunrise – Orbital Data Centers
Blue Origin3 days ago
Base Salary
$151k - $231k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design and develop ground and flight software components for a secure, robust software update system.
- Create ground infrastructure and operator tooling to build, test, approve, and deploy software releases to the production constellation.
- Implement onboard logic for receiving, validating, and applying updates fault-tolerantly.
- Develop verification and rollback strategies to protect fleet safety and integrity during update campaigns.
- Collaborate with cybersecurity, flight software, and ground software teams to integrate the OTA system into development and operational workflows.
- Build an automated system for managing complex, multi-stage rollout campaigns across a large, dynamic fleet.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related technical field.
- At least 3 years of professional software engineering experience.
- Strong programming skills in Python, Go, or C++.
- Experience designing and building reliable distributed systems.
- Deep understanding of software deployment, configuration management, and automation.
- U.S. citizenship or nationality, U.S. permanent residency, or lawful admission as a refugee or asylee is required.
- Preferred: experience developing OTA update systems for embedded devices, automotive, aerospace, or IoT at scale.
- Preferred: knowledge of secure boot, code signing, and software deployment security principles.
- Preferred: experience building and managing deployment pipelines in AWS or GCP.
- Preferred: familiarity with fault-tolerant design, secure software supply chains, NIST SSDF, SPD-5, FIPS 140-3, NASA-STD-8739.8, NPR 7150.2, ECSS-Q-ST-80C, or DO-178C.
Benefits
- Medical, dental, vision, basic and supplemental life insurance, paid parental leave, short- and long-term disability, 401(k) with a company match of 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.
- Relocation assistance is available.
- Travel may be required up to 10% of the time.
- Some employees may be eligible for discretionary benefits and bonuses based on role type and job level.
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.