Software Engineer III Core Platform
Blue Origin1 day ago
Base Salary
$165k - $231k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and operate scalable, highly available backend services and APIs for the Core Platform.
- Develop and own Go and Java microservices and distributed-system components.
- Evolve centralized API layers, shared data models, API contracts, event contracts, workflow orchestration, and configuration-driven business rules.
- Build integrations using REST, GraphQL, message brokers, asynchronous messaging, and event-driven patterns.
- Build cloud-native AWS solutions and infrastructure as code for reliable deployments.
- Own service reliability through on-call participation, incident response, root-cause analysis, and lasting remediation.
- Establish monitoring, alerting, logging, metrics, and distributed-tracing practices.
- Build real-time, event-driven data pipelines for high-volume streams and live dashboards.
- Develop and enhance React web interfaces using JavaScript and TypeScript.
- Write maintainable, tested software and contribute to code reviews, design reviews, CI/CD practices, documentation, and engineering standards.
- Use and evaluate AI-assisted development tools, including Claude Code and Codex, and integrate AI/LLM capabilities where appropriate.
- Collaborate with product managers, business stakeholders, engineers, and senior and principal engineers across the Serenity Platform.
- Mentor junior engineers and contribute to technical guidance as experience grows.
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 foundations in algorithms, data structures, distributed systems, and object-oriented design.
- Experience shipping 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 unit, integration, and end-to-end testing, and deployment practices.
- Familiarity with Docker and Kubernetes.
- Experience supporting production systems on call, including incident response and postmortems.
- Demonstrated use of AI-assisted development tools such as Claude Code, Codex, or equivalent, with sound judgment about generated code.
- 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 into the U.S. as a refugee or granted asylum.
- Preferred experience includes workflow orchestration, business-rules engines, event-driven systems, real-time data, GraphQL federation, React, Terraform or AWS CDK, Datadog or OpenTelemetry, enterprise platforms, AI/LLM APIs, prompt engineering, responsible generative AI, AI-generated code evaluation, mentoring, and aerospace, manufacturing, or supply chain domains.
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 for 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.
- Potential role- and level-dependent benefits and bonuses, subject to company discretion and change.
- The posting lists a base pay range of $164,652.00-$230,512.80 for Washington applicants; other site ranges may differ.
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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.