Senior Software Engineer – Software Defined Network (SDN) and Network Observability Team - TeraWave
Blue Origin4 days ago
Base Salary
$249k - $348k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design and develop highly available, low-latency distributed services for network orchestration, telemetry collection, and control-plane operations.
- Build software that plans, disseminates, and coordinates state across terrestrial infrastructure, orbital assets, and users under dynamic network conditions.
- Develop scalable pipelines for ingesting and processing high-volume telemetry and event streams.
- Design data models and storage solutions using relational, NoSQL, search, and streaming technologies for real-time operations.
- Build APIs and services connecting network planning, control, and execution components.
- Collaborate with spacecraft, RF, networking, and ground-systems engineers to integrate software across the TeraWave platform.
- Diagnose performance bottlenecks in large-scale distributed systems, focusing on latency, throughput, and reliability.
- Support mission-critical services through on-call rotations and launch or mission operations as required.
- Contribute to architecture, design reviews, coding standards, and engineering practices across the SDN and Network Observability organization.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or a related technical field.
- 8+ years of professional software engineering experience developing distributed systems, networking, and large-scale backend platforms.
- Strong proficiency in one or more systems programming languages such as Go, Rust, Java, or C++.
- Experience building distributed microservices and APIs in cloud-native or large-scale production environments.
- Experience with distributed messaging or streaming platforms such as Kafka, Kinesis, Pulsar, or similar technologies.
- Experience designing scalable data systems using SQL, NoSQL, search, or time-series databases.
- Strong understanding of fault tolerance, scalability, consistency, and resiliency in distributed systems.
- Experience troubleshooting production systems using observability tools, metrics, logging, and distributed tracing.
- Excellent communication and cross-disciplinary collaboration skills.
- Preferred qualifications include telecommunications, satellite communications, or space-systems experience; high-volume telemetry or event-stream processing; Apache Flink; OpenSearch or Elasticsearch; observability platforms; Kubernetes; mission-critical operations; hardware or embedded-systems integration; AWS services; and search, indexing, or query optimization.
Benefits
- Medical, dental, vision, basic and supplemental life insurance, paid parental leave, short- and long-term disability, a 401(k) match of 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.
- Benefits and discretionary bonuses may vary by role type and job level and are not guaranteed.
Tech Stack
Categories
BackendData Engineering
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.