Senior Software Engineer

About the role

This role is part of Blue Origin corporate functions, providing centralized support across Blue Origin business unit teams, functions, and locations. We are a team of collaborators, doers, and problem-solvers who are relentlessly committed to a culture of safety. This position will directly impact the history of space exploration and will require your commitment and detailed attention towards safe and repeatable space flight.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and deploy digital employee experiences across HR technology platforms including Cornerstone, LMS tools, and Workday, ensuring seamless end-to-end user journeys.
• Architect and build custom integrations between HR enterprise systems (Workday, Cornerstone, LMS) and internal/external applications using RESTful APIs, SOAP, GraphQL, and message queues.
• Leverage AI technologies and tools (e.g., LLMs, recommendation engines, intelligent automation) to enhance HR software capabilities, improve employee self-service, and drive innovation in people technology.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams including HR business partners, data analysts, and ET stakeholders to translate people-operations requirements into actionable software solutions.
• Identify feature gaps between enterprise HR systems and develop remediation plans, building custom solutions that meet end users where they are.
• Contribute to the design, implementation, and deployment of enterprise-scale HR systems and services that are highly available, scalable, and maintainable.
• Produce quality technical documentation for defining integrations between enterprise-level HR applications.
• Adopt software DevOps technologies and CI/CD best practices to solve software automation and deployment challenges.
• Design and implement automations that reduce manual HR operational toil, streamline workflows, and improve system reliability across the HR technology stack.
• Provide technical guidance and mentorship to engineers and cross-functional team members who are passionate about improving the employee experience at Blue Origin, fostering growth across both technical and non-technical disciplines.
• Stay current with emerging HR technology trends, AI/ML advancements, and digital experience methodologies, proposing improvements and innovations to optimize system performance.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Systems, or a related field.
• 7+ years of proven experience writing software and deploying it to production environments.
• Hands-on experience with at least one HR technology platform such as Workday, Cornerstone OnDemand, or similar LMS/HCM systems.
• Strong proficiency in languages such as Java, Python, or JavaScript/TypeScript.
• Experience developing APIs and building applications on them in a production environment.
• Experience with AWS cloud services, including containerization and orchestration using Kubernetes (K8s) and Amazon EKS.
• Familiarity with observability and monitoring tools such as Datadog for application performance management, logging, and infrastructure monitoring.
• Experience solving complex problems by leveraging AI tools and integrating AI-powered solutions into software development workflows.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to communicate complex systems to a varying user base.

Qualifications

• Master's degree in Computer Science, HR Information Systems, or a related field.
• Experience building and configuring Workday integrations (Workday Studio, EIBs, or Workday Extend).
• Deep familiarity with Cornerstone OnDemand administration, configuration, and custom development including learning management and talent management modules.
• Experience integrating AI/ML models into enterprise HR applications (e.g., intelligent recommendations, chatbots, predictive analytics for talent).
• Proficiency in deployment and orchestration tools such as Git and Docker.
• Experience with Databricks for data engineering, analytics, or ML workflows across HR data pipelines.
• Working knowledge of the Atlassian product suite (Jira, Confluence) and GitLab for project management, documentation, and CI/CD workflows.
• Experience building dashboards, alerts, and SLOs in Datadog to ensure reliability and performance of enterprise HR systems.
• Experience with data integration, transformation, and real-time processing across HR data sources.
• Strong project management skills with the ability to manage multiple priorities across distributed teams.
• Absolutely love our mission and vision!

Skills

• Passion for our mission and vision is required!

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.
• Paid Time Off: Up to four (4) weeks per year based on weekly scheduled hours, and up to 14 company-paid holidays.
• Stock Options for all regular employees (working at least 20 hours/week).

Pay

For WA applicants is $197,529.00 - $276,539.55

Schedule

Not specified