Senior Software Engineer – Software Defined Network (SDN) and Network Observability Team - TeraWave
About The Position
Blue Origin is developing TeraWave, a satellite communications network intended to deliver symmetrical data speeds of up to 6 Tbps to enterprise, data center, and government users. As a Senior Software Engineer on the Software Defined Network (SDN) and Network Observability Team, you will design and develop software systems that manage, route, and monitor the satellite network in real time. The work includes distributed services for network planning, orchestration, telemetry processing, and observability across user terminals, satellites, and terrestrial infrastructure. You will collaborate with spacecraft, user, and ground systems engineers to build resilient software for a constellation operating under changing orbital conditions. The position involves developing highly available, low-latency services and scalable telemetry pipelines; designing data models, storage solutions, APIs, and services; diagnosing distributed-system performance issues; and contributing to architecture, design reviews, and engineering practices. Operational support for mission-critical services, including on-call rotations and launch or mission operations, may be required.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or a related technical field.
- 8+ years of professional software engineering experience developing distributed systems, networking, and large-scale backend platforms.
- Strong proficiency in one or more systems programming languages such as Go, Rust, Java, or C++.
- Experience building distributed microservices and APIs in cloud-native or large-scale production environments.
- Experience with distributed messaging or streaming platforms such as Kafka, Kinesis, Pulsar, or similar technologies.
- Experience designing scalable data systems using SQL, NoSQL, search, or time-series databases.
- Strong understanding of distributed systems fundamentals, including fault tolerance, scalability, consistency, and resiliency.
- Experience troubleshooting production systems using observability tools, metrics, logging, and distributed tracing.
- Excellent communication skills and ability to collaborate effectively across multiple engineering disciplines.
Nice To Haves
- Experience building software for telecommunications, satellite communications, or space systems.
- Experience processing high-volume telemetry or event streams using Apache Flink or similar stream-processing frameworks.
- Experience with OpenSearch, Elasticsearch, DynamoDB, or comparable large-scale data platforms.
- Experience building observability platforms that support real-time operational decision making.
- Familiarity with cloud-native infrastructure and Kubernetes-based deployments.
- Experience supporting mission-critical operational environments, including launch, field operations, or network operations centers.
- Experience working directly with hardware or embedded systems teams to integrate software with physical devices.
- Familiarity with AWS services such as S3, Athena, DynamoDB, and streaming data services.
- Experience optimizing search, indexing, and query performance for large operational datasets.
Responsibilities
- Design and develop highly available, low-latency distributed services for network orchestration, telemetry collection, and control plane operations across the TeraWave constellation.
- Build software to plan, disseminate, and coordinate state across terrestrial infrastructure, orbital assets, and users while maintaining reliability and consistency under dynamic network conditions.
- Develop scalable data pipelines to ingest and process high-volume telemetry streams.
- Design efficient data models and storage solutions using relational, NoSQL, search, and streaming technologies for real-time operational workflows.
- Build APIs and services that enable reliable communication between network planning, control, and execution components.
- Collaborate with spacecraft, RF, networking, and ground systems engineers to integrate software across the TeraWave platform.
- Diagnose and resolve performance bottlenecks in large-scale distributed systems, focusing on latency, throughput, and operational reliability.
- Participate in operational support for mission-critical services, including on-call rotations and launch or mission operations as required.
- Contribute to software architecture, design reviews, coding standards, and engineering best practices across the SDN and Network Observability organization.
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 all 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 based on company discretion.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
