Blue Origin

Senior Software Development Engineer, SDN Visualization

Blue Origin$248K — $348K *
Aerospace & Defense
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or related STEM field.
  • 5+ years of professional software development experience in technical domains.
  • Experience with front-end technologies such as TypeScript, JavaScript, or React.
  • Skilled in integrating web applications with APIs and streaming data sources.
  • Knowledge of data structures, algorithms, and production software testing.

Responsibilities

  • Design and implement visualization software for satellite and terrestrial networks.
  • Create geospatial and graph-based views of network components.
  • Develop workflows for searching and navigating network state.
  • Enable path tracing and troubleshooting for network operations.
  • Implement event reconstruction and topology transition analysis tools.
  • Build backend services and APIs for data handling.
  • Collaborate with engineers and operators to refine technical interfaces.

Benefits

  • Medical, dental, and vision insurance options.
  • Access to stock options for regular employees.
  • Paid Time Off, including up to four weeks of vacation and 14 holidays.
  • 401(k) plan with a company match up to 5%.
  • Education Support Program to assist in professional development.
Full Job Description
Application close date:
Applications will be accepted on an ongoing basis until the requisition is closed.

About TeraWave

Blue Origin is building TeraWave, a next-generation satellite constellation designed to provide high-bandwidth, low-latency connectivity across the globe. TeraWave's end-to-end network spans user terminals, satellites and the optical inter-satellite link mesh, gateways, Points of Presence, and supporting ground and operational infrastructure.

About This Role

As a Senior Software Development Engineer within the TeraWave Network Software organization, you will design and build visualization software for a continuously changing satellite network. TeraWave operators and engineers need tools to understand current, historical, planned, and predicted network state across satellites, gateways, Points of Presence, links, routes, traffic, faults, and topology changes. You will transform network topology, telemetry, routing, and operational data into visual applications that support situational awareness, network planning, troubleshooting, anomaly investigation, and operational decisions.

This role is based in Seattle, WA, or Cupertino, CA.

Responsibilities
  • Design, implement, test, deploy, and operate visualization software for satellite and terrestrial networks.
  • Build geospatial and graph-based views of satellites, links, gateways, routes, and network paths.
  • Create workflows to search, filter, group, aggregate, and navigate current and predicted network state.
  • Enable operators to trace paths, inspect routing behavior, and investigate alarms, failures, and connectivity changes.
  • Develop playback, event-reconstruction, and state-comparison capabilities for incident investigation and topology transition analysis.
  • Build backend services, APIs, and data models for topology, routing, telemetry, inventory, and event data.
  • Implement data delivery mechanisms and optimize performance, security, observability, and resilience across visualization systems.
  • Partner with network engineers, operators, systems engineers, and designers on interfaces and technical reviews.


Basic Qualifications
  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or related STEM field.
  • 5 or more years of professional software development experience in technical domains.
  • Experience developing front-end applications using TypeScript, JavaScript, or React for production systems.
  • Experience integrating production web applications with APIs, streaming data sources, or event-driven systems.
  • Experience with data structures, algorithms, distributed systems, asynchronous processing, and production software testing.


Preferred Qualifications
  • Experience building visualization platforms for network topology, infrastructure monitoring, observability, mapping, or operational systems.
  • Experience with geospatial rendering technologies such as WebGL, Cesium, Mapbox, deck.gl, or Three.js.
  • Experience with graph-visualization technologies such as Cytoscape.js, D3.js, Sigma.js, or Graphviz.
  • Experience designing backend services, APIs, or data models for topology, telemetry, geospatial, or other data-intensive visualization applications.
  • Knowledge of IP networking, routing, packet forwarding, SDN, traffic engineering, or network telemetry.
  • Experience with satellite, aerospace, telecommunications, cloud infrastructure, wireless, or optical systems.
  • Experience developing playback, simulation visualization, event reconstruction, or time-based data-exploration capabilities.


Base Pay Range for:
CA applicants is $248,830.00 - $348,361.65WA applicants is $248,830.00 - $348,361.65

Other site ranges may differ

Culture Statement

Don't meet all desired requirements? Studies have shown that some people are less likely to apply to jobs unless they meet every single desired qualification. At Blue Origin, we are dedicated to building an authentic workplace, so if you're excited about this role but your past experience doesn't align perfectly with every desired qualification in the job description, we encourage you to apply anyway. You may be just the right candidate for this or other roles.

Benefits
  • Benefits include: Medical, dental, vision, basic and supplemental life insurance, paid parental leave, short and long-term disability, 401(k) with a company match of up to 5%, and an Education Support Program.
  • Stock Options for all regular employees (working at least 20 hours/week)
  • Paid Time Off: Up to four (4) weeks per year based on weekly scheduled hours, and up to 14 company-paid holidays.
  • Dependent on role type and job level, employees may be eligible for benefits and bonuses based on the company's intent to reward individual contributions and enable them to share in the company's results, or other factors at the company's sole discretion. Bonus amounts and eligibility are not guaranteed and subject to change and cancellation. Please check with your recruiter for more details.


About Blue Origin

Blue Origin is an aerospace company that develops rockets and spacecraft for commercial and government customers. The company's products include the New Shepard suborbital vehicle and the New Glenn orbital rocket. Blue Origin was founded in 2000 by Jeff Bezos and is headquartered in Kent, Washington.
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