Senior Platform Engineer - AI-Driven DevTools

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

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, vision coverage

401(k) with company match

Job summary

Blue Origin is seeking a Senior Software Development Engineer to join the Developer Platforms team. You will design, build, and operate critical internal platforms that enable thousands of engineers to design, test, and deliver software daily, including AI-assisted development capabilities.

You will own end‑to‑end lifecycle, drive architectural decisions, and mentor teammates in a secure, scalable environment.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of professional software development experience.
• Deep experience designing, building, and operating distributed systems.
• Strong proficiency in Go, Python, or JavaScript.
• Experience with CI/CD systems, build pipelines, and developer tooling.
• Experience with infrastructure as code (Terraform, CloudFormation, or similar).
• Solid understanding of AWS or comparable cloud platforms.
• Experience with containerized workloads (Kubernetes, Docker).
• Demonstrated ability to lead technical design efforts and mentor other engineers.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and ship platform capabilities that improve the developer experience (CI/CD pipelines, integrations, self-service tooling, automation).
• Own the full lifecycle of the software you build, from design through production operation.
• Build and integrate AI-powered tools and workflows to accelerate engineering productivity.
• Balance technical debt against feature delivery across multiple systems.
• Partner with engineering teams to identify pain points, gather requirements, and deliver platform solutions.
• Contribute to infrastructure and architecture decisions, focusing on distributed system interactions.

Skills

Years of experience 5+

Distributed systems

Go

Python

JavaScript

CI/CD tooling

AWS / cloud

Tools

Kubernetes

Docker

GitLab

Artifactory

Terraform

Job description

Blue Origin is seeking a Senior Software Development Engineer to join the Developer Platforms team. You will design, build, and operate critical internal platforms that enable thousands of engineers to design, test, and deliver software daily, including AI-assisted development capabilities.

You will own end‑to‑end lifecycle, drive architectural decisions, and mentor teammates in a secure, scalable environment.