Software Engineer III Core Platform
Blue Origin3 days ago
Base Salary
$165k - $231k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and operate scalable, highly available backend services, APIs, microservices, and distributed system components.
- Develop centralized API layers, shared data models, backward-compatible API and event contracts, and integrations across internal and commercial systems.
- Build configuration- and schema-driven workflow orchestration, business-rules, and decision-engine capabilities.
- Build real-time, event-driven data pipelines for high-volume streams, downstream systems, and live dashboards.
- Develop cloud-native solutions on AWS and maintain infrastructure as code for reliable multi-environment deployments.
- Own service reliability through on-call rotations, incident response, root-cause analysis, monitoring, alerting, logging, and distributed tracing.
- Build and enhance React-based web interfaces and integrate platform APIs with user-facing applications.
- Write maintainable, well-tested software and contribute to code reviews, automated testing, CI/CD practices, standards, playbooks, and documentation.
- Use and evaluate AI-assisted development tools and integrate AI/LLM capabilities into platform services when they provide measurable value.
- Collaborate with engineers, product managers, designers, and business stakeholders; participate in architecture and design reviews and mentor junior engineers.
Requirements
- At least 5 years of professional software-development and production-deployment experience.
- Proficiency in at least one statically typed language, Go or Java, and one dynamically typed language, JavaScript/TypeScript or Python.
- Strong knowledge of computer science fundamentals, including algorithms, data structures, distributed systems, and object-oriented design.
- Demonstrated ability to ship production software end to end, from design through deployment and ongoing operations.
- Hands-on AWS and cloud-native application-development experience.
- Working knowledge of REST and/or GraphQL API design and integration patterns.
- Experience with asynchronous APIs, message brokers such as NATS or Kafka, and API/event contracts consumed by other engineering teams.
- Understanding of relational and NoSQL databases, schema design, and query optimization.
- Experience with CI/CD pipelines, automated testing, containerization, orchestration, deployment practices, and production on-call support.
- Experience using AI-assisted development tools such as Claude Code, Codex, or equivalent, with judgment concerning correctness, security, and production readiness.
- Strong communication skills and the ability to deliver solutions amid ambiguous or evolving requirements.
- Must be a U.S. citizen or national, U.S. permanent resident, or lawfully admitted refugee or asylee.
- Preferred qualifications include workflow orchestration or business-rules-engine experience, event-driven and real-time data systems, GraphQL schema design and federation, React, Terraform or AWS CDK, Datadog or OpenTelemetry, enterprise-platform integrations, AI/LLM API integration, prompt engineering, and mentoring experience.
- Experience in aerospace, manufacturing, or supply chain is a plus but not required.
Benefits
- Medical, dental, vision, basic and supplemental life insurance, paid parental leave, short- and long-term disability, 401(k) matching 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.
- Depending on role type and job level, employees may be eligible for discretionary benefits and bonuses.
Tech Stack
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.