Sr. DevOps and Release Validation Engineer - TeraWave RF and Optical Systems
About The Position
This Senior Software DevOps and Release Validation Engineer role is part of Blue Origin’s Emerging Systems business unit and supports TeraWave, a space-based satellite communications network. The position develops custom tools and infrastructure to integrate software, firmware, and FPGA bitstream CI/CD pipelines with hardware-in-the-loop (HIL) and simulators-in-the-loop (SIL) testbeds. The work supports deploying beta, gamma, and production build images to appropriate test targets; managing build artifacts; scheduling and running automated feature-validation and regression test suites; capturing results; generating reports; and filing trouble tickets. The position is onsite in the Greater Seattle Area, Washington, with an approved temporary remote-work exception while the local site is developed. Relocation assistance is available, and travel may be required up to 10% of the time. Applicants must meet the stated U.S. citizenship, permanent residency, refugee, or asylum eligibility requirements. The role requires a standard background check; additional checks may apply for certain job profiles.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or a related technical field.
- At least 5 years of software engineering, DevOps, platform, infrastructure, or site reliability experience.
- Software development experience in one or more languages such as Python, Go, or Java.
- Experience building and operating production CI/CD systems such as GitHub Actions, Jenkins, or Argo CD.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
- 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
- At least 7 years building software infrastructure for large-scale distributed, telecommunications, or mission-critical systems.
- Experience supporting Linux-based distributed systems and diagnosing complex failures across applications, networks, and infrastructure.
- Experience deploying software across geographically distributed fleets requiring staged deployment, configuration consistency, and rollback.
- Experience with GitOps, immutable infrastructure, software supply-chain security, secrets management, and deployment controls.
- Experience building network test infrastructure using traffic generators, virtual topologies, emulators, simulators, or digital twins.
Responsibilities
- Architect, build, and operate CI/CD infrastructure for RF and Optical systems software, firmware, and FPGA development teams.
- Develop automated build, test, packaging, release, and deployment pipelines.
- Design artifact, versioning, and release-management systems that provide traceability from source code through production deployment and rollback.
- Build observability tools to capture test results, metrics, logs, traces, and telemetry, and to file trouble tickets with necessary information.
- Partner with platform, networking, SDN, hardware, and systems engineering teams to define deployment and validation requirements.
- Improve engineering velocity and production reliability through automation, developer tooling, and standardized deployment patterns.
- Integrate CI/CD pipelines with HIL and SIL testbeds, deploy build images to test targets, manage artifacts, schedule and execute test suites, capture results, and generate reports.
Benefits
- Medical insurance
- Dental insurance
- 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 scheduled weekly 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 or company results; eligibility and amounts are not guaranteed and may change or be canceled.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
