Senior Software Development Engineer, SDN Visualization

Blue Origin • Bay Area, CA

3d • Onsite

About The Position

At Blue Origin, we envision millions of people living and working in space for the benefit of Earth. We’re working to develop reusable, safe, and low-cost space vehicles and systems within a culture of safety, collaboration, and inclusion. Join our team of problem solvers as we add new chapters to the history of spaceflight! 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. 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. 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.

Requirements

• 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.

Nice To Haves

• 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.

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.

Benefits

• 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.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior