Senior SDN & Network Observability Engineer

Blue Origin LLC; United States; On-site; USD 249,000 - 348,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, vision

401(k) with company match

Education Support Program

Stock Options

Paid Time Off

Job summary

Blue Origin LLC is seeking a Senior Software Engineer for the Software Defined Network (SDN) and Network Observability Team. You will design and develop distributed software that manages and monitors Blue Origin’s dynamic satellite network in real time, enabling planning, orchestration, telemetry processing, and observability across thousands of terminals, satellites, and ground infrastructure.

You will work closely with spacecraft, RF, networking, and ground systems engineers to ensure

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or related technical field.
• 8+ years of professional software engineering experience developing distributed systems, networking, and large-scale backend platforms.
• Strong proficiency in one or more systems programming languages such as Go, Rust, Java, or C++.
• Experience building distributed microservices and APIs operating in cloud-native or large-scale production environments.
• Experience with distributed messaging or streaming platforms such as Kafka, Kinesis, Pulsar, or similar technologies.
• Experience designing scalable data systems using SQL, NoSQL, search, or time-series databases.
• Strong understanding of distributed systems fundamentals, including fault tolerance, scalability, consistency, and resiliency.
• Experience troubleshooting production systems using observability tools, metrics, logging, and distributed tracing.
• Excellent communication skills and ability to collaborate effectively across multiple engineering disciplines.

Responsibilities

• Design and develop highly available, low-latency distributed services supporting network orchestration, telemetry collection, and control plane operations across the TeraWave constellation.
• Build software that plans, disseminates, and coordinates state across terrestrial infrastructure, orbital assets, and users while maintaining reliability and consistency under dynamic network conditions.
• Develop scalable data pipelines capable of ingesting and processing high-volume telemetry streams to improve network visibility and operational responsiveness.
• Design efficient data models and storage solutions using relational, NoSQL, search, and streaming technologies to support real-time operational workflows.
• Build APIs and services that enable reliable communication between network planning, control, and execution components.
• Collaborate with spacecraft, RF, networking, and ground systems engineers to integrate software across the broader TeraWave platform.
• Diagnose and resolve performance bottlenecks in large-scale distributed systems with a focus on latency, throughput, and operational reliability.
• Participate in operational support for mission-critical services, including on-call rotations and launch or mission operations as required.
• Contribute to software architecture, design reviews, coding standards, and engineering best practices across the SDN and Network Observability organization.

Skills

Go

Rust

Java

C++

Distributed systems

APIs

Kafka

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related

Tools

OpenSearch

Elasticsearch

DynamoDB

Kubernetes

AWS

Apache Flink

Job description

Blue Origin LLC is seeking a Senior Software Engineer for the Software Defined Network (SDN) and Network Observability Team. You will design and develop distributed software that manages and monitors Blue Origin’s dynamic satellite network in real time, enabling planning, orchestration, telemetry processing, and observability across thousands of terminals, satellites, and ground infrastructure.

You will work closely with spacecraft, RF, networking, and ground systems engineers to ensure