Platform & API Engineer III - Project Sunrise – Orbital Data Centers
About The Position
This role is part of Blue Origin’s Advanced Concepts and Enterprise Engineering (ACE) organization and supports Project Sunrise, a constellation of orbital data centers. The team advances engineering workflows, shared solutions and standards, simplicity, lower costs, and manufacturable design in support of Blue Origin’s mission. As a Platform & API Engineer, you will scale customer-facing systems from a single-tenant service to a highly available, multi-tenant platform. You will harden and scale APIs to support a growing customer base, with a focus on the reliability, scalability, and security of the customer platform. The role involves building production-grade distributed systems and developing a successful prototype into a robust, performant, and secure service.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related technical field.
- At least 3 years of professional software engineering experience focused on building and operating backend systems.
- Demonstrated experience designing and scaling APIs and distributed services.
- Strong programming skills in a language such as Go, Python, Java, or C#.
- Experience building and operating services on a cloud platform such as AWS or GCP.
- Solid understanding of containerization with Docker and orchestration with Kubernetes.
- Must be a U.S. citizen or national, U.S. permanent resident (current Green Card holder), or lawfully admitted into the U.S. as a refugee or granted asylum.
Nice To Haves
- Experience building and operating multi-tenant SaaS platforms.
- Deep knowledge of API security, authentication, and authorization, such as OAuth 2.0 and OIDC.
- Experience with Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) principles and practices.
- Familiarity with infrastructure-as-code tools such as Terraform or Ansible.
- Familiarity with SOC 2 Type II, ISO/IEC 27001, and secure development practices such as NIST SSDF (SP 800-218).
- Passion for building robust, scalable, and secure production systems.
Responsibilities
- Evolve customer-facing APIs to support multi-tenancy while ensuring strict data isolation and security between customers.
- Design and implement backend service improvements to scale for increasing load from multiple tenants.
- Develop and implement monitoring, logging, and alerting for the customer platform to support high availability.
- Build tooling and automation to onboard new customers smoothly and efficiently.
- Work with the security team on security audits, threat modeling, and hardening the public-facing API.
- Refactor and improve the codebase for long-term maintainability and scalability.
- Contribute to the full lifecycle of the customer platform.
Benefits
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance.
- Basic and supplemental life insurance.
- Paid parental leave.
- Short- and long-term disability.
- 401(k) with company match of up to 5%.
- Education Support Program.
- Stock options for regular employees working at least 20 hours per week.
- Paid time off of up to four weeks per year based on weekly scheduled hours.
- Up to 14 company-paid holidays.
- Relocation assistance is available.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
