Senior DevOps Engineer - Spacecraft Infra & CI/CD

Blue Origin; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 165,000 - 231,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, vision

401(k) match

Paid parental leave

Stock options

Generous PTO

Job summary

Blue Origin seeks a hands-on DevOps engineer to own and evolve the software infrastructure behind avionics development for rocket engines. You will build, secure, and maintain CI/CD pipelines, container images, and reproducible development environments to support safety-critical software.

The role emphasizes scripting in Python/Shell, collaboration across IT and platform teams, and scaling developer machines and build pipelines for mission-critical systems.

Qualifications

• B.S. degree or higher in computer science, computer engineering, electrical engineering, or a related technical field. Other engineering or science degrees will be considered with relevant experience.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain GitLab CI/CD pipelines and the GitLab Runner fleet supporting engine software development, from unit test through delivery to development hardware and simulated environments.
• Own the container build and distribution path - Dockerfiles, base images, registries, and artifact repositories - including migration of the existing Kaniko-based image builds to the go-forward toolchain.
• Provision and manage developer workstations, virtual machines, build servers, and containers as code using Ansible, driving toward reproducible, self-documenting infrastructure.
• Develop automation and tooling in Python and Shell to eliminate manual steps, reduce error rates, and improve build and test throughput.
• Act as the team's first line of support for Docker and CI issues across our software teams - triage failures, perform root cause analysis, and review other engineers' pipeline and container changes.
• Partner with external IT, Site Reliability Engineering, and infrastructure organizations to secure resources, resolve cross-boundary issues, and represent the team's needs.
• Identify weak points in our infrastructure management and propose and implement improvements rather than waiting to be asked.
• Maintain the tooling that supports our safety-critical software development process, including static analysis infrastructure and the licensing, entitlement, and availability of those tools.

Skills

DevOps experience

Linux Admin

Python scripting

Shell scripting

CI/CD pipelines

Git fundamentals

Automation

Python and Shell

Multi-tasking

Communication

Education

B.S. degree or higher in computer science, computer engineering, electrical engineering, or a related technical field

Tools

Docker

GitLab CI/CD

GitLab Runners

Ansible

Artifactory

Kaniko

Virtual Machines

Job description

Blue Origin seeks a hands-on DevOps engineer to own and evolve the software infrastructure behind avionics development for rocket engines. You will build, secure, and maintain CI/CD pipelines, container images, and reproducible development environments to support safety-critical software.

The role emphasizes scripting in Python/Shell, collaboration across IT and platform teams, and scaling developer machines and build pipelines for mission-critical systems.