Sr Software Engineer
Blue Origin2 months ago
Base Salary
$198k - $277k/yr
Responsibilities
- Lead the design, delivery, planning, and improvement of multiple systems as the technical lead for a full-stack software development team.
- Resolve competing priorities, provide level-of-effort estimates, and balance technical debt against feature delivery.
- Drive AI-first development practices using LLMs, agentic workflows, code-generation tools, and other AI technologies.
- Lead anomaly investigations, root-cause analyses, recovery plans, incident response, and regular business-hours on-call support.
- Mentor and train engineers on engineering techniques, code quality, system operation, and code review practices.
- Engage customers and product managers to identify pain points, validate solutions, and inform roadmap decisions.
- Lead process improvements and tooling development across team projects.
- Coordinate projects across organizations and represent the team as a primary contact.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent work experience.
- 10+ years of experience developing enterprise-grade distributed applications, including at least three years in a technical leadership role owning multiple systems and collaborating across teams.
- Advanced knowledge of full software development life cycle practices, including coding standards, code reviews, source control, security, testing, continuous integration and deployment, and system operation.
- Deep understanding of microservice architectures and containerized or serverless environments, including debugging complex distributed-service failures.
- Experience developing and operating AWS services with infrastructure as code.
- Experience integrating, evaluating, adopting, and coaching teams on AI-powered engineering tools and workflows.
- Advanced technical judgment for selecting methods, techniques, and architectural trade-offs for complex, ambiguous problems.
- Ability to lead through informal authority, mentor engineers, drive technical direction, and remain accountable for delivery outcomes.
- Strong written and verbal communication with technical and non-technical audiences.
- Preferred qualifications include Java/Spring Boot, React/TypeScript, Python, data-intensive applications, streaming or event-driven architectures, AWS certification, regulated-environment experience, operational excellence initiatives, Generative AI systems, and manufacturing or aerospace experience.
Benefits
- Medical, dental, vision, basic and supplemental life insurance, paid parental leave, short- and long-term disability, a 401(k) with company match 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.
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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.