Software Engineer III Core Platform

About the role

This role is part of Enterprise Technology (ET), where we’re developing the digital infrastructure needed to build the road to space, with an emphasis on digital capabilities required to advance Blue Origin’s mission. Enterprise Technology is the center of excellence for digital technology at Blue Origin, providing oversight and governance to align technology and business strategies.

Responsibilities

• Platform Development & Architecture
  • Design, build, and operate scalable, highly available backend services and APIs that serve as the backbone of Blue Origin's enterprise platform.
  • Develop and own microservices and distributed system components using Go and Java, following clean architecture and domain-driven design principles.
  • Build and evolve the centralized, managed API layer and shared data-model management — designing API and event contracts that many teams depend on, with backward compatibility and versioning as primary constraints.
  • Architect robust integrations between internal systems and commercial platforms using REST, GraphQL, message queues, and event-driven patterns.
  • Propose and implement optimal technical architectures, presenting your designs clearly to peers and stakeholders.
• Cloud Infrastructure & Operations
  • Build and maintain cloud-native solutions on AWS, leveraging managed compute, storage, database, and networking services.
  • Develop and maintain infrastructure-as-code to support reliable, repeatable deployments across environments.
  • Own the reliability of your services — participate in on-call rotations, respond to incidents, conduct root cause analyses, and implement lasting fixes.
  • Establish and uphold observability best practices including monitoring, alerting, logging, and distributed tracing.
• Real-Time Data & Full-Stack Contributions
  • Build real-time, event-driven data pipelines that ingest high-volume streams and serve both downstream systems and live dashboards.
  • Build and enhance web interfaces using React and modern JavaScript/TypeScript to deliver seamless experiences on top of platform services.
  • Collaborate with frontend engineers and designers to integrate APIs with user-facing applications efficiently and reliably.
• Engineering Excellence
  • Write well-tested, maintainable code and champion quality through code reviews, automated testing strategies, and CI/CD pipeline best practices.
  • Leverage AI-assisted development tools — including Claude Code, Codex, and equivalent AI assistants — to accelerate delivery, improve code quality, and explore smarter approaches to complex engineering problems.
  • Evaluate and thoughtfully integrate AI/LLM capabilities into platform services where they create measurable value — with a clear eye on reliability, security, and governance guardrails.
  • Identify and resolve complex software issues across the full stack — from service logic and database performance to deployment configuration and client integration.
  • Contribute to team standards, playbooks, and documentation that raise the technical bar across the team.
• Collaboration & Growth
  • Partner closely with Senior and Principal Engineers to deliver on the team's ambitious roadmap.
  • Work cross-functionally with product managers, business stakeholders, and engineers across the Serenity Platform to translate requirements into reliable platform capabilities.
  • Actively participate in design reviews, sprint ceremonies, and technical discussions — your voice and perspective matter here.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of professional experience in software development and production deployment.
• Proficiency in at least one statically typed language (Go or Java) and one dynamically typed language (JavaScript/TypeScript or Python).
• Strong foundations in computer science fundamentals — algorithms, data structures, distributed systems, and object-oriented design.
• Prominent track record of shipping production software end-to-end, from design through deployment and ongoing operations.
• Hands-on experience with AWS services and cloud-native application development.
• Experience with REST and/or GraphQL API design and integration patterns.
• Experience with asynchronous APIs and message brokers (e.g., NATS, Kafka, or similar), and designing API/event contracts consumed by other engineering teams.
• Solid understanding of relational and NoSQL databases, including schema design and query optimization.
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines, automated testing strategies (unit, integration, end-to-end), and deployment best practices.
• Familiarity with containerization and orchestration tools such as Docker and Kubernetes.
• Experience supporting production systems on-call, including incident response and postmortem practices.
• Demonstrated habit of using AI-assisted development tools (such as Claude Code, Codex, or equivalent) as a core part of your engineering workflow — and the engineering judgment to know when to trust, question, or override what AI generates.
• Strong communication skills — you can articulate complex technical concepts clearly, engage constructively in design discussions, and own outcomes.
• Able to deliver working solutions even with ambiguous or evolving requirements.
• 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.