Senior DevOps Engineer - Satellite Network Infrastructure

Blue Origin LLC; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 198,000 - 277,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Stock options

401(k) with company match

Medical/dental/vision coverage

Paid time off

Education assistance

Job summary

Blue Origin LLC is seeking a Senior Software Development Engineer focused on DevOps and Network Software Infrastructure for the TeraWave program. You’ll design and build platforms, automation, and deployment frameworks enabling a global satellite network and hundreds of engineers to deliver software reliably.

The role emphasizes CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure as code, observability, and automated testing in cloud, data center, and lab environments. Seattle-based opportunity.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or related field.
• 5+ years of software engineering, DevOps, platform, infrastructure, or site reliability experience.
• Software development experience in one or more languages such as Python, Go, Rust, or Java.
• Experience building and operating production CI/CD systems such as GitHub Actions, Jenkins, or Argo CD.
• Experience with infrastructure automation using Terraform, Ansible, Kubernetes, Helm, or equivalent configuration management systems.
• Understanding of IP networking, routing protocols, IP/MPLS, Segment Routing, software defined networking, and network automation.

Responsibilities

• Architect, build, and operate CI/CD infrastructure supporting networking, SDN, MAC, platform, and ground software teams.
• Develop automated build, test, packaging, release, and deployment pipelines for globally distributed PoPs, gateways, and edge systems.
• Build infrastructure as code and configuration management frameworks for reproducible deployment across cloud, data center, and lab environments.
• Develop integration and test environments incorporating network emulation, topology simulation, traffic generation, and failure injection testing.
• Design artifact, versioning, and release management systems providing traceability from source code through production deployment and rollback.
• Build observability tooling for metrics, logs, traces, network telemetry, deployment health, alerting, and automated diagnostics.
• Partner with SDN, ground networking, platform, security, and systems engineering teams to define deployment and validation requirements.
• Improve engineering velocity and production reliability through automation, developer tooling, and standardized deployment patterns.

Skills

Python

Go

Rust

Java

CI/CD automation

DevOps practices

Networking basics

Education

Bachelor's degree in computer science/engineering

Tools

GitHub Actions

Jenkins

Argo CD

Terraform

Ansible

Kubernetes

Helm

Istio

Job description

Blue Origin LLC is seeking a Senior Software Development Engineer focused on DevOps and Network Software Infrastructure for the TeraWave program. You’ll design and build platforms, automation, and deployment frameworks enabling a global satellite network and hundreds of engineers to deliver software reliably.

The role emphasizes CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure as code, observability, and automated testing in cloud, data center, and lab environments. Seattle-based opportunity.