Software Engineer III - Backend & Data Systems (AI Solutions)
Blue Origin1 day ago
Base Salary
$165k - $231k/yr
Responsibilities
- Own backend services, APIs, and data models primarily in Python while maintaining technical design and code-review standards.
- Build integrations that reconcile product data across multiple enterprise systems of record.
- Improve and modernize existing applications, including authentication, data integrity, testing, and technical debt remediation.
- Structure product data for AI features, implement human-in-the-loop safeguards, and design evaluations for AI-assisted functionality.
- Deploy and operate services on AWS and containerized infrastructure, including monitoring, reliability, CI/CD, and shared on-call support.
- Work directly with Manufacturing Engineers to understand workflows and validate that shipped software improves their work.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
- 5+ years of software engineering experience with demonstrated ownership of production backend services.
- Strong backend and API development experience in Python or a comparable language, including REST and/or GraphQL interfaces.
- Deep experience with relational data modeling and SQL, including production schema changes and data migrations.
- Experience integrating multiple systems of record and building pipelines that recover from partial failures.
- Hands-on experience deploying and operating applications on AWS and containerized infrastructure.
- Experience integrating LLMs into products, designing evaluations, assessing usable model data, and reviewing AI-generated code.
- Strong communication and cross-functional collaboration skills with non-technical users.
- Preferred experience includes shared data models, retrieval or agentic data preparation, hierarchical product data, engineering-artifact workflows, manufacturing or aerospace environments, MES, work-order or work-instruction systems, PLM, internal tools, Databricks, or Spark SQL.
Benefits
- Medical, dental, vision, basic and supplemental life insurance, paid parental leave, short- and long-term disability, 401(k) with 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.
- Potential role- and level-dependent benefits and bonuses, subject to company discretion and change.
- Fully onsite in Renton, Washington, Monday through Friday from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.; relocation is available.
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.