Qualifications
Responsibilities
Benefits
Application close date:
Applications will be accepted on an ongoing basis until the requisition is closed.Blue Origin is pioneering the future of space-basedconnectivitywithTeraWave, a revolutionary satellite communications network designed to deliver symmetrical data speeds of up to 6Tbpsanywhere on Earth.This network will service tens of thousands of enterprise, data center, and government users who require reliable connectivity for critical operations.We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer to architect and build the PoP Control-Plane Network Servicesthe 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 inC++,Rust, orGo.
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 deployingmicroservices architectureswithin containerized environments usingKubernetes(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 includingcircuit breakers, retries with exponential backoff, and bulkhead isolationto 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:
CA applicants is $248,830.00 - $348,361.65 WA applicants is $248,830.00 - $348,361.65Other site ranges may differ
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