Senior Software Engineer - TeraWave PoP Control-Plane Network Services
About The Position
Blue Origin is developing TeraWave, a satellite communications network designed to deliver symmetrical data speeds of up to 6 Tbps to enterprise, data center, and government users. The Senior Software Engineer will architect and build PoP Control-Plane Network Services, the software layer that manages, routes, and controls a dynamic mesh network of satellite customer terminals in real time. As a founding member of the next-generation PoP infrastructure team, this engineer will work on the Control Plane that orchestrates end-to-end connectivity across the network. The work will support highly available connections between customers’ endpoints and build the distributed systems that serve as the control layer for a space-based ISP.
Requirements
- At least 8 years of experience.
- Expert-level proficiency in C++, Rust, or Go.
- Deep experience with consensus algorithms such as Raft and Paxos, distributed caching, and message brokers such as Kafka and gRPC.
Nice To Haves
- Extensive experience designing and deploying microservices architectures in containerized environments using Kubernetes, including EKS, AKS, or bare-metal deployments.
- Proven experience with service mesh technologies such as Istio or Linkerd and service discovery in highly dynamic, multi-region environments.
- Expert knowledge of distributed-systems resiliency patterns, including circuit breakers, retries with exponential backoff, and bulkhead isolation.
- Experience building reactive, asynchronous systems using event-sourcing or CQRS patterns to manage high-velocity network state changes.
- Familiarity with high-cardinality monitoring and tracing tools such as Prometheus, Jaeger, and OpenTelemetry.
Responsibilities
- Design and implement highly available, low-latency control-plane services using microservices patterns for subscriber provisioning and session management.
- Build and maintain stateful distributed services operating across terrestrial data centers and orbital nodes.
- Develop and optimize SQL, NoSQL, and time-series database schemas to track billions of telemetry points.
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 based on individual contributions and company results or other factors.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
Education Level
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