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Blue Origin is pioneering the future of space-based communications with TeraWave, a revolutionary satellite communications network designed to deliver symmetrical data speeds of up to 6 Tbps anywhere on Earth. This multi-orbit constellation will consist of optically interconnected satellites in low Earth orbit (LEO) and medium Earth orbit (MEO), providing enterprise-grade connectivity for critical operations worldwide.

We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer to architect and build the PoP Control-Plane Network Services-the software layer that manages, routes, and controls a dynamic mesh network of satellite customer terminals in real-time.

The Role

You will be a founding member of our next-generation PoP infrastructure team working on the Control Plane that orchestrates end to end connectivity across the entire network. Your work will ensure that customers maintain a highly available satellite connection between all their different end points as you build the "distributed brain" of a space-based ISP.

Key Responsibilities

• Architect the Control Plane: Design and implement highly available, low-latency control plane services using microservices patterns to handle subscriber provisioning and session management.

• Distributed Systems at Scale: Build and maintain stateful distributed services that operate across terrestrial data centers and orbital nodes.

• High-Throughput Database Design: Develop and optimize database schemas (SQL, NoSQL, and Time-Series) to track billions of telemetry points.

Required Qualifications

• Experience: 8+ years

• Languages: Expert-level proficiency in C++, Rust, or Go.

• Distributed Systems: Deep experience with consensus algorithms (Raft, Paxos), distributed caching, and message brokers (Kafka, gRPC).

Preferred Skills (Microservices & Distributed Systems Focus)

• Cloud-Native Architecture: Extensive experience designing and deploying microservices architectures within containerized environments using Kubernetes (EKS/AKS or bare-metal).

• Service Mesh & Discovery: Proven track record with service mesh technologies (e.g., Istio, Linkerd) and service discovery mechanisms in highly dynamic, multi-region environments.

• Resiliency Patterns: Expert knowledge of distributed system patterns including circuit breakers, retries with exponential backoff, and bulkhead isolation to ensure "five-nines" availability.

• Event-Driven Design: Experience building reactive, asynchronous systems using event-sourcing or CQRS patterns to manage high-velocity network state changes.

• Observability at Scale: Familiarity with high-cardinality monitoring and tracing (e.g., Prometheus, Jaeger, OpenTelemetry) to debug complex distributed interactions across orbital and ground segments.

Base Pay Range for:
WA 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.