Platform & API Engineer III - Project Sunrise – Orbital Data Centers

Blue Origin•Littleton, CO

19h

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 Platform & API Engineer will scale the customer-facing systems from a single-tenant service to a highly available, multi-tenant platform. The role focuses on the reliability, scalability, and security of the customer platform as the customer base grows, and on turning a successful prototype into a production-grade distributed service. The engineer will harden and scale the APIs and backend services, maintain strict isolation between customers, and help ensure the platform remains robust, performant, secure, and highly available. The position contributes to the full lifecycle of the customer platform and works with security partners on audits, threat modeling, and hardening public-facing APIs. Travel may be required up to 10% of the time. Relocation assistance is available.

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, with 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 high availability of the customer platform.
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.
Up to four weeks of paid time off per year based on weekly scheduled hours.
Up to 14 company-paid holidays.
Depending on role type and job level, employees may be eligible for benefits and bonuses at the company’s discretion.
Relocation assistance available.