Software Engineer II

About the role

This role is part of Advanced Concepts and Enterprise Engineering (ACE), supporting Blue Origin's mission of millions of people living and working in space for the benefit of Earth. The team fosters innovation and drives engineering workflows of the future, shared solutions and standards, simplicity and lower costs, and manufacturable design. As a Software Engineer II, you will join a team of passionate software platform engineers, responsible for building and maintaining distributed services and UIs for distributed platforms intended to efficiently drive quality, schedule, and configuration management standards used daily by our engineers to design Blue's avionics hardware and software. This role will propel the reliable operation of the company and strengthen the value of automation and data-driven decision making in modern aerospace.

What makes our team successful?

• Deeply comprehend our customers' problems and work to address them
• Passionate about data quality and trust
• Balance the needs of various customers – from compliance and standardization with those who require flexibility and speed
• Knowledge of data storytelling and visualization, with a demonstrable record of driving adoption through crafting products that people want to use

Responsibilities

• Design and develop scalable reporting, dashboards and RESTful services using Python, Typescript, SQL, and other tools
• Participate in the development of automated processes to integrate disparate systems to generate engineering level reporting suitable for engineers and decision makers of different backgrounds
• Develop analytical data models that support standardized metrics
• Develop and maintain documentation, run books, data dictionaries and guides
• Work with partners and domain specialists to generate reporting, application, and integration requirements
• Maintain day-to-day workflow and communication with a variety of partners across the company

Qualifications

• 2+ Years of Experience Working as a Software Developer in a professional environment
• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or a related field, or experience commensurate with education requirements
• Proven expertise in Python, TypeScript, Ruby, C# or other general purpose programming language
• Demonstrated ownership of services or internal or external products
• Back-end expertise: Creating web servers & APIs with Python, Node.js and/or other server-side web frameworks (e.g. Next.js, Ruby on Rails, Laravel, Django, Flask, etc)
• Front-end skills: HTML, CSS, JavaScript (ES6, Typescript, JSX, React), UX/UI design, data visualization, front-end styling frameworks such as Tailwind, Material UI, Bootstrap, etc. fetching data from APIs (REST & GraphQL)
• Database proficiency: Writing sophisticated SQL database queries with many joins in highly normalized databases, designing normalized database schemas
• Excellent written communication and presentation skills
• Analytical, organization, and problem-solving skills
• Understanding of modern software practices such as version control systems, CI/CD workflows, test driven development
• Attention to detail and high level of accuracy
• Self-starter, strong bias for action

Desired experience

• Experience with implementing Data Quality monitoring and alerting systems
• Experience with hierarchical data structures and recursive processing techniques
• Experience with JIRA, Gitlab and Confluence
• Experience with near real time/micro batch data feeds
• Experience working with Generative AI to process highly structured data and enable others to ask questions of the data
• Knowledge of ETL tools and processes
• Knowledge and experience with Linux, especially as applied to Docker
• Familiarity with Infrastructure as Code and relevant technologies
• Familiarity with AWS Services, especially S3, RDS, and EC2
• Familiarity with Docker and container orchestration frameworks such as Kubernetes

Pay

Base Pay Range: For CO applicants is $123,714.00 – $173,199.60; WA applicants is $134,961.00 – $188,945.40. 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, and up to 14 company-paid holidays
• Dependent on role type and job level, employees may be eligible for benefits and bonuses based on the company's intent to reward individual contributions and enable them to share in the company's results, or other factors at the company's sole discretion. Bonus amounts and eligibility are not guaranteed and subject to change and cancellation.