Senior Software Engineer - TeraWave Core Network Services

About the role

Blue Origin envisions millions of people living and working in space for the benefit of Earth. We’re developing 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. We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer to architect and build the PoP Control-Plane Network Services—the software layer that manages, routes, and controls a dynamic mesh network of satellite customer terminals in real-time.

Responsibilities

• Architect the Control Plane: design and implement highly available, low-latency control plane services using microservices patterns to handle subscriber provisioning and session management.
• Build and maintain stateful distributed services that operate across terrestrial data centers and orbital nodes.
• Develop and optimize database schemas (SQL, NoSQL, and Time-Series) to track billions of telemetry points.

Required Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience
• Expert-level proficiency in C++, Rust, or Go
• Deep experience with consensus algorithms (Raft, Paxos), distributed caching, and message brokers (Kafka, gRPC)

Preferred Skills

• Cloud-Native Architecture: Extensive experience designing and deploying microservices architectures within containerized environments using Kubernetes (EKS/AKS or bare-metal).
• Service Mesh & Discovery: Proven track record with service mesh technologies (e.g., Istio, Linkerd) and service discovery mechanisms in highly dynamic, multi-region environments.
• Resiliency Patterns: Expert knowledge of distributed system patterns including circuit breakers, retries with exponential backoff, and bulkhead isolation to ensure “five-nines” availability.
• Event-Driven Design: Experience building reactive, asynchronous systems using event-sourcing or CQRS patterns to manage high-velocity network state changes.
• Observability at Scale: Familiarity with high-cardinality monitoring and tracing (e.g., Prometheus, Jaeger, OpenTelemetry) to debug complex distributed interactions across orbital and ground segments.

Base Pay Range

For WA applicants is $248,830.00 – $348,361.65. Other site ranges may differ.

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%
• 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
• Up to 14 company-paid holidays