Customer Platform Engineer III - Project Sunrise – Orbital Data Centers
Blue Origin3 days ago
Base Salary
$151k - $231k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design, develop, and operate public-facing REST or gRPC APIs for provisioning, managing, and monitoring on-orbit compute workloads.
- Build and maintain a developer portal containing customer documentation, API references, and getting-started tutorials.
- Implement backend services for customer authentication, authorization, and usage-based accounting.
- Collaborate with customers and partners to gather requirements, feedback, and integration needs.
- Connect customer requests and responses across ground systems and the space segment.
- Champion intuitive, consistent, secure, and well-documented API design.
- Own the customer platform lifecycle from design and prototyping through production deployment and 24/7 operational support.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related technical field.
- At least 3 years of professional software engineering experience.
- Demonstrated experience designing, building, and operating public-facing APIs.
- Strong programming skills in Python, Go, Java, or TypeScript.
- Experience with modern web and backend frameworks such as React, FastAPI, gRPC, or Spring Boot.
- Experience with cloud platforms such as AWS or GCP and containerized deployment using Docker or Kubernetes.
- Must be a U.S. citizen or national, current U.S. permanent resident, or lawfully admitted refugee or asylee.
- Preferred qualifications include developer portal or technical documentation experience, OAuth 2.0 and OIDC, rate limiting, enterprise customer or partner integrations, highly available distributed systems, and familiarity with SOC 2 Type II, ISO/IEC 27001, and NIST SSDF (SP 800-218).
Benefits
- Medical, dental, vision, basic and supplemental life insurance, paid parental leave, short- and long-term disability, a 401(k) company match of up to 5%, and an Education Support Program.
- Stock options for all 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.
- Relocation assistance is available.
- Travel may be required up to 10% of the time.
- 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.